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The movements, developments, and influences of various groups on and into other groups in both cases look similar to me, as well. In both cases, creative people inside the movement could draw upon inspirations from outside the movment. Early Christians, for example, could draw from pagan myths or f...

I think you are possibly misunderstanding Origen. I don't think he is claiming that all the apocryphal gospels he mentions are heretical in origin . Some clearly are regarded as written by heretics such as Basilides, but this does not seem to be true in all cases. I think Origen's point is that the...

While skimming through Origen this evening, I noticed the following: Origen, Homilies on Joshua 4.3: 3 .... But remember that it is written, “Those who draw near to me, draw near to fire” (= Thomas 82). .... Origen, Homilies on Jeremiah 27.3.7: 7 I have read elsewhere as if the Savior was speaking ...

Incidentally, Stuart makes an interesting case somewhere (I forget where) that there is a reaction against the demiurge in the Marcan synoptic apocalypse: Mark 13.19: 19 For those days will be a time of tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until...

See http://gnosis.org/library/odes.htm This is Ode 28 As the wings of doves over their nestlings, and the mouths of their nestlings towards their mouths, so also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart. My heart continually refreshes itself and leaps for joy, like the babe who leaps for joy in his...

Is the longer ending of Mark 16:9-20 in the Canon or not? The Catholic Church says yes. Protestant translations that do not rely on the Alexandrian text (e.g. KJV) say yes. I assume the Orthodox churches say yes since it comes from the "Majority Text." Perhaps the question isn't meaningful today as...

If you are clever enough you can make 666 apply to almost anyone.

Andrew Criddle

The Dialogue With Trypho mentions John the Baptist e.g. But the Dialogue with Trypho was not written by Justin. The Dialogue (35) assumes a Marcion who is already famous at a global* level. But Marcion was expelled from the Church of Rome only in 144 CE. He couldn't be known nor hated by Justin if ...

Of course I can't do anything with this if no one can find what Lightfoot supposedly saw. And now that I take another look at the book (I had copied it from an older thread), I see I had typed it wrong. It actually says, "Lightfoot says that he [Ebion] is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud as one of...

The Dialogue With Trypho mentions John the Baptist e.g. Justin: Now, it is possible to see among us women and men who possess gifts of the Spirit of God; so that it was prophesied that the powers enumerated by Isaiah would come upon Him, not because He needed power, but because these would not conti...