Titus of Bostra

Bishop of Bostra in the Roman province of Arabia, Titus governed his church through the pagan reaction under Julian the Apostate — who wrote to the city urging the citizens to expel him, a backhanded tribute to his influence. His major surviving work, Against the Manichaeans, is one of antiquity's most thorough refutations of that religion's dualism, arguing the goodness of creation and the reality of free will. He also expounded the Gospel of Luke; the commentary is lost as a whole, but generous fragments survive in the Greek catenae, which is how his voice reaches the Catena Aurea.

Emperor Julian the Apostate wrote to Bostra personally urging the citizens to expel Titus — imperial proof of one bishop's influence.

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