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    the Chaldeans · The Chaldeans

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    The Chaldeans2 mentions

    Meditations (Greek) · Adversus Marcionem (Latin)

    The Chaldeans foretold the deaths of many men, and then their own appointed fate overtook them too.
    book three

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Assyrian priestly caste credited with astrology and philosophical priority.

    The Egyptians, at any rate, first brought astrology to men, and likewise the Chaldeans.
    book 1
    the Chaldeans too, and the Arabians called blessed, and all who inhabited Palestine, and not the least part of the Persian race, and ten thousand other races besides.
    book 1
    At its head stood the prophets of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans among the Assyrians, the Druids among the Galatians, the Samanaeans among the Bactrians, the philosophers of the Celts, and the Magi of the Persians (who by their magic foretold the birth of the Saviour, coming into the land of Judaea led by a star), and among the Indians the gymnosophists, and other barbarian philosophers besides.
    book 1

    De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

    The people whose wisdom Daniel is said to have learned.

    And like to him, in later times, they say that the wise Daniel learned the wisdom of the Chaldeans at Babylon, and only then laid hold of the divine teachings.
    de legendis gentilium libris

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    One of the three idolatrous peoples in Nachor's schema, said to worship the elements (heaven, earth, sun, moon, etc.) as gods.

    Into great error, then, the Chaldeans went astray, after their own desires.
    chapter 27
    Into great error, then, the Chaldeans went astray, worshipping dead and useless images.
    chapter 27
    And if the elements are not gods, how are the images, which were made in their honour, gods?
    chapter 27

    MeditationsImperial · Greek

    Astrologer-diviners who foretold the deaths of many yet met their own fate.

    The Chaldeans foretold the deaths of many men, and then their own appointed fate overtook them too.
    book three

    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    The Chaldeans whose souls were lost through preferring idolatry, contrasted with the three faithful youths in the furnace narrative.

    He makes safe the souls of the three brothers, who had conspired to lose them for God, but lost those of the Chaldeans, which they had preferred to make safe through idolatry.
    book 4

    ScorpiaceLate Antiquity · Latin

    The group that accuses Daniel before the king, seeking his punishment.

    For Daniel too — the suppliant of none but God, and therefore accused and demanded by the Chaldeans — the shut-in and accustomed ferocity of the lions would surely at once have devoured, had Darius's worthy presumption about God deserved to be disappointed.
    scorpiace