Eulogius

Eulogius is known only as a correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium (d. c. 450), to whom Isidore addressed at least eleven surviving letters within the Pelusium milieu of the eastern Nile Delta in the early-to-mid fifth century. The letters are uniformly brief works of scriptural and theological instruction: Isidore expounds for him the parable of the barren fig tree, the silencing of Zacharias, Christ's declining of the cup, the rhetorical force of Paul's questions, the incomprehensibility of God, and the moral steadiness needed to bear changes of fortune. One letter puns affectionately on his name (Eulogius, 'one who blesses, who speaks well') and notes that he had chosen to praise Isidore and those who shared his ascetic way of life, which suggests an educated admirer and pupil rather than a peer. Beyond this body of pedagogical correspondence he is otherwise unattested, and he should not be confused with the later Eulogius, patriarch of Alexandria.