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From the School of Alexandria and the ministry of this illiterate bishop, two good things came about.  

From the School of Alexandria and the ministry of this illiterate bishop, two good things came about.  

   

   

1. There came out two great teachers of the way of Christ who so influenced the Christianity which would follow - Clement of Alexandria and Origin (whom he exiled for unkown reason).  

1. There came out two great teachers of the way of Christ who so influenced the Christianity which would follow - Clement of Alexandria and Origen (whom he exiled for an unknown reason).  

   

   

2. Demetrius chose the headmaster of his school even before Clement and Origin came forth, who was totally the opposite of himself, to go on a special mission. His name was Pantaenus. Pantaenus was a Jew who had come to believe in Christ and was an intellectual, originally from Sicily, the "Sicilian bee"- named for his diligence in the study of Greek Philosophy. Demetrius chose Pantaenus to go to India as a "herald of the Gospel of Christ" (Eusebius) on invite of Hindu philosophers, who wanted to know more about Christ. Arriving in India, Pantaenus found a small but thriving Christian community, and he reported back that he even found the Gospel of Matthew written in Hebrew, reportedly brought there by Bartholemew (bar Tolmai, a disciple of the Lord), after Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles, had gotten there. Scholars say that that "Hebrew" Gospel  was really in [[Aramaic]], as "Hebrew" was sometimes a cover-term for Aramaic, and because the community of believers immediately after was Aramaic speaking, centering in the seven Jewish cities known to be in southern India from the 1st century (Southern India - Kerala and environs would become the center for the [[Aramaic Church]] in India).  Today, most of the descendants of this community of Jews, part of the Bene Israel, are living in Israel.

2. Demetrius chose the headmaster of his school even before Clement and Origen came forth, who was totally the opposite of himself, to go on a special mission. His name was Pantaenus. Pantaenus was a Jew who had come to believe in Christ and was an intellectual, originally from Sicily, the "Sicilian bee"- named for his diligence in the study of Greek Philosophy. Demetrius chose Pantaenus to go to India as a "herald of the Gospel of Christ" (Eusebius) on invite of Hindu philosophers, who wanted to know more about Christ. Arriving in India, Pantaenus found a small but thriving Christian community, and he reported back that he even found the Gospel of Matthew written in Hebrew, reportedly brought there by Bartholemew (bar Tolmai, a disciple of the Lord), after Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles, had gotten there. Scholars say that that "Hebrew" Gospel  was really in [[Aramaic]], as "Hebrew" was sometimes a cover-term for Aramaic, and because the community of believers immediately after was Aramaic speaking, centering in the seven Jewish cities known to be in southern India from the 1st century (Southern India - Kerala and environs would become the center for the [[Aramaic Church]] in India).  Today, most of the descendants of this community of Jews, part of the Bene Israel, are living in Israel.

==See Also==

==See Also==