Chaldeans
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the Chaldeans · The Chaldeans · al-Kaldāniyyūn · الكلدانيون
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1 expressionthe Chaldeans3 mentions
Meditations (Greek) · Adversus Marcionem (Latin) · Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
The Chaldeans foretold the deaths of many men, and then their own appointed fate overtook them too.
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Stromata
Assyrian priestly caste credited with astrology and philosophical priority.
The Egyptians, at any rate, first brought astrology to men, and likewise the Chaldeans.
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.
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.
De legendis gentilium libris
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.
Barlaam and Josaphat
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, worshipping dead and useless images.
Into great error, then, the Chaldeans went astray, after their own desires.
And if the elements are not gods, how are the images, which were made in their honour, gods?
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A Mesopotamian people whose pronunciation of the divine name as Bal supplies the phonetic bridge to Hubal, and whose triads support the reading of the Meccan idols as a triad.
Examples of these triads are many among the ancient Egyptians, the Chaldeans and others.
” As for the added ʻayn, it is easily slurred over in light pronunciation and then lost in use, and especially in the word “Baʻl,” since the Chaldeans used to pronounce it “Bal,” dropping the ʻayn, this being the name of this god with them.
Meditations
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.
Adversus Marcionem
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.
Scorpiace
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.