Ulfilas
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Additional material for the life of Ulfilas may be found in the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, fragments of which, as preserved, may be found appended to the Bohn translation of Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
It is true that Auxentius institutes the same comparison between Ulfilas and Moses, after stating that Ulfilas had been received with great honors by Constantius.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Ulfilas, the bishop of the Goths at that time, invented the Gothic letters and, translating the Holy Scriptures into their own language, undertook to instruct these barbarians in the divine oracles.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
But great changes had since been wrought among them by a remarkable man named Ulfilas, who was consecrated as their bishop in the year 348.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie
Ulfilas, Bishop of the Goths, § 76, 1. 350-361.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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