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I think most here know something about the Egyptian backstory:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history ... adb08cd0ff

(BSB)But love your enemies, do good [to them], and lend [to them], expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked . (THGNT) πλὴν ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν καὶ ἀγαθοποιεῖτε καὶ δανίζετε μηδὲν ἀπελπίζοντε...

Revelation 1:15: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. ...........................................χαλκολιβάνῳ .......... καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένης ................................. ὑδάτων πολλῶν Dated c.AD 95, the reign of the Roman e...

Frankincense and Myrrh are both resins (dried tree sap). Myrrh's scent was popular for mundane christing, and may of symbolized the sap from a venerated tree or tree product in a religious The GoP has the chrism as olive oil, for what it's worth: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelphi...

How do we know something with certainty? If certainty is impossible, does that mean that thing is 'probably' (plausibly) false? No, this would be a sophmoric argument for negation's sake: an Ulterior Motive (i.e. corrupt intent), the drivel of modern scholarship. Devil's Advocate: otoh and recently,...

remote places [...] the Pontus Perspective, off? Pontus was beside Byzantium. Nicæa: Nicæa was 140 km from what became the capital of the Empire. It was not more than 2 days' travel-time away. Nicomedia: Even closer was Nicomedia, fmr capital that was ~70 km from Nicæa and Byzantium. Herakleia: Xen...

"Indeed in the Chrism did they call us Christian , not because of the baptism. And have they called the ΧΣ because of the Chrism" Perhaps of interest to others here, I don't see that anyone on this site has ever referenced this Chrism paper or its author: This inquiry studies 1 John becau...

Ironically, this funerary perfume smells like The Dead
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https://greekcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/coins-1024x742-1-1024x600.jpg Crimean coin. Taken from Hermitage, sold by (under the orders of) Stalin. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/26/ancient-greek-gold-coin-from-crimea-sells-for-a-record-breaking-48m Gee, I wonder what nationality...