Cosmas Indicopleustes
6th century · AD 550 · Eastern & Byzantine · 337 passages
Background on Cosmas Indicopleustes
In his own words on Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 18:15
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you—him ye shall hear. And that man who shall not hear what ever that prophet shall speak in my name, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
The Christian Topography, Book 5
- Deuteronomy 32:8
They say however that, until men become equal in number to the angels, the consummation of the world will not take place. For Moses says: He set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God.
The Christian Topography, Book 5
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.