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n. - A Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic.

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  • Aristotle and the Chaldeans to show the origin and purpose of these little offices, just as Carlyle has to unearth Ulfila the Moesogoth to explain a word he uses to his...
  • AUXENTIUS'S account is also found in WAlTZ, Ueber das leben und die lehre des Ulfila (Hanover, 1840); HODGKIN, Italy and her Invaders, I
  • He gives us this unconscious glimpse of himself at work on this loftiest and most fruitful of tasks, which Jerome had first accomplished for Latin Christendom, Ulfila...
  • Considering how human things circulate, each inextricably in communion with all, -- how the word I speak to you to-day is borrowed, not from Ulfila the Moesogoth only,...
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