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Clement returns to a discussion of image compared to likeness when criticizing Valentinus. Valentinian, in a homily, writes in these words: You are originally immortal, and children of eternal life, and you would have death distributed to you, that you may spend and lavish it, and that death may die...

I'm actually not sure why anyone ever believed in this tale about "eyewitness" reports. Even in today's times, it's rather easy to see that this is very unreliable, although it's much easier to actually go and check the facts. For example, at one of my workplaces, we had a newspaper liais...

Here is the solution. Apparently in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Commentary on John there is an allusion to Philomela during a discussion of self-castration. The Marcionite engaged in this rite. Let me find the reference I think there may be a confusion http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/235.ex...

The Ultimate source of the motif of a bird ascending at the funeral pyre is the Funeral of Augustus 42 1 Such was the eulogy read by Tiberius. Afterwards the same men as before took up the couch and carried it through the triumphal gateway, according to a decree of the senate. Present and taking par...

Do we have a list of those 2nd or 3rd century people who 'knew' the Didache? +/or lists of (ii) those who didn't know it; or (iii) may have known it? Clement of Alexandria in http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/02101.htm says It is such an one that is by Scripture called a thief. It is therefore said,...

For the ante-Nicene period, the best you can really do is to cross-reference Eusebius against the texts likely to have been written earlier. There are other authors, but they generally just build on Eusebius and focus their own efforts on later periods. But there is also a sneaky way to get more of...

See also http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm

Andrew Criddle

Ok-- I am really trying to get a handle on this information that I ran across on the internet from Moriel Ministries-- which seems to be a Messianic Christian group. They tend to try to show how the Jews really knew that Jesus was the messiah, and reference a lot of Talmudic material as a way to ba...

Still you haven't produced a demonstrable EXACT parallel to the Ignatian corpus (save for the single one gospel and that is entirely theoretical AND would likely have been accomplished by the same person). The Ignatian corpus cuts lines and paragraphs and sections. It is not a summary or an epitome...

Luke 9:28-36 About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor,...