Cosmas Indicopleustes
6th century · AD 550 · Eastern & Byzantine · 337 passages
Background on Cosmas Indicopleustes
In his own words on 1 Peter
- 1 Peter 1:12
Into which things the angels desire to look; as if he said: They also have not yet obtained the good things laid up for us in heaven—yea, they have not so much as the privilege of seeing them.
The Christian Topography, Book 7
- 1 Peter 5:13
it was in the Roman dominions that the preaching of Christianity first became current in the days of the Apostles, and it was immediately afterwards extended to Persia by the Apostle Thaddaeus. And, to be sure we find this written in the Catholic Epistles: The Church that is in Babylon elect together with you, saluteth you
The Christian Topography, Book 2
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