Sixtus, an unknown Greek philosopher the Sententiae of Evagrius the Clementine Recognitions (the only form in which that work is now extant) the Canon Paschalis of Anatolius Alexandrinus. Josephus' Antiquities and The Jewish War (Josephus de antiquitatibus ac de bello judaico.) Quotes from Tyrannius Rufinus He said; "[The Incarnation] was that the divine nature of the Son of God might be like a kind of hook hidden beneath the form of human flesh… to lure on the prince of this world to a contest; that the Son might offer him his human flesh as a bait and that the divinity which lay underneath might catch him and hold him fast with its hook… then, just as a fish when it seizes a baited hook not only fails to drag off the bait but is itself dragged out of the water to serve as food for others; so he that had the power of death sees the body of Jesus in death, unaware of the hook of divinity which lay hidden inside. Having swallowed it, he was immediately caught. The gates of hell were broken, and he was, as it were, drawn up from the pit, to become food for others." — Christian Theology, an Introduction, Chapter 13, The Doctrine of Salvation in Christ. Influence One can hardly overestimate the influence which Rufinus exerted on Western theologians by thus putting the great Greek fathers into the Latin tongue. Dominic Vallarsi's uncompleted edition of Rufinus (vol. i. folio. Verona, 1745) contains the De Benedictionibus, the Apologies, the Expositio Symboli, the Historia Eremitica and the two original books of the Historia Ecclesiastica. Vallarsi intended to collect the translations in vol. ii., but it was never published. See also Migne, Patrologia Latina (vol. xxi). For the translations, see the various editions of Origen, Eusebius, etc. Notes References William Fremantle in Dictionary of Christian Biography iv. 555–560; Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Allg. Gesch. d. Litt. d. Mittelalters im Abendlande, i.321-327 (Leipzig, 1889); G. Kruger in Hauck-Herzog's Realencyk. für prot. Theol., where there is a full bibliography. External links Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina Rufinus Tyrannius at Original Catholic Encyclopedia Church Fathers 4th-century Romans 5th-century Romans 4th-century Christians 5th-century Christians 340s births 410 deaths Christian writers 4th-century Christian theologians People from the Metropolitan City of Venice 4th-century translators 5th-century translators Greek–Latin translators 4th-century Christian monks 5th-century Christian monks 4th-century Latin writers 5th-century Latin writers 4th-century historians