Olympiodorus (circa 450 A.D.) was a Greek monk, ordained as a deacon of a church in Alexandria, and believed to have lived in the 5th or 6th century. He wrote short commentaries on Job, Ecclesiastes, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Baruch, as well as a fragmentary form of a commentary on Psalms. His writings are based on the the Septuagint, which is the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. He also refers to the Hexapla, a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, compiled by the theologian and scholar Origen, sometime before the year 240 A.D.
Quotes by Olympiodorus…
All writings, both of secular and of divine wisdom, yield instruction when effort is applied.
