THE IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD IN JACOB OF SERUG’S HOMILY, “ON THAT CHARIOT THAT EZEKIEL THE PROPHET SAW”
I. Fides Adorans Mysterium: The Theology of Jacob of Serug We do not have much reliable biographical information about Jacob of Serug [1]. We know that he was born around the middle of the fifth century, the son of a parish priest in the town of Batnan of the region of Serug in the largely Syriac-speaking, Roman province of Osrhoene. He was himself ordained to the priesthood as a celibate in the early 470’s, and served as circuit inspector and preacher, chorepiskopos or periodeutes, in the region of his birth. In 519, he was consecrated bishop of his native town and died there...
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