Sentences with phrase «asked by his pagan»

When the anonymous Christian in Nicholas of Cusa's dialogue «On the Hidden God» is asked by his pagan interlocutor to explain the difference between Christians and pagans, he answers that followers of Christ know they can not comprehend the divine.

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A guerrilla war took place through the 1980s and 1990s in which much of the countryside was evacuated, thousands of Kurdish - populated villages were destroyed by the government, and numerous summary executions were carried out by both sides.However they were later driven out of Hazza by pagans, and settled in Tamanon, which according to Abdisho was in the land of the Kurds.Tamanon lies just north of the modern Iraq - Turkey border, while Hazza is 12 km southwest of modern Erbil.One of the earliest records of the phrase land of the Kurds is found in an Assyrian Christian document of late antiquity, describing the stories of Assyrian saints of the Middle East, such as Abdisho.When the Sasanian Marzban asked Mar Abdisho about his place of origin, he replied that according to his parents, they were originally from Hazza, a village in Assyria.The region came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius I.