The Testimonium Flavianum in Revelation of Adam

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Giuseppe
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The Testimonium Flavianum in Revelation of Adam

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Revelation of Adam doesn't mention never ''Jesus'' or ''Christ'' but, differently from Paul, betrayes a historicist view of Jesus in the following allusion to ''signs and wonders'' made by a savior figure before his death by hand of archons:

The whole creation that came from the dead earth will be under the authority of death. But those who reflect on the knowledge of the eternal god in their hearts will not perish. They have not received spirit from this kingdom but from something eternal, angelic. . . . The illuminator will come . . . Seth. And he will perform signs and wonders to scorn the powers and their ruler.

Then the god of the powers is disturbed and says, “What is the power of this person who is higher than we are?” Then he brings a great wrath against that person. And glory withdraws and lives in holy houses it has chosen for itself. The powers do not see it with their eyes, nor do they see the illuminator. They punish the flesh of the one over whom the holy spirit has come.
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/adam-barnstone.html

(note that according to Paul, Jesus didn't never ''signs and wonders'', for ''the Jews ask miracles'').


Therefore the author is giving a historicist reason to kill this Jesus figure: ''signs and wonders to scorn the powers and their ruler''.

''Signs and wonders'' do remember quasi the precise words of the Testimonium Flavianum:

"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day."



If the reason to kill Jesus is removed from the Revelation of Adam, then we would have:

The whole creation that came from the dead earth will be under the authority of death. But those who reflect on the knowledge of the eternal god in their hearts will not perish. They have not received spirit from this kingdom but from something eternal, angelic. . . . The illuminator will come . . . Seth.

And glory withdraws and lives in holy houses it has chosen for itself. The powers do not see it with their eyes, nor do they see the illuminator. They punish the flesh of the one over whom the holy spirit has come.
In this case, we have something of very similar to Ascension of Isaiah, where no mention is made of the why the masked Son is killed by demons (only his simple entering in their territory of ''flesh'').
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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