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Origen's Contra Celsus book II, chapter 4 (in part): ... Now, certainly the introduction to Christianity is through the Mosaic worship and the prophetic writings; and after the introduction, it is in the interpretation and explanation of these that progress takes place, while those who are introduce...

Paul's references to 'my gospel" could be glosses added into the Pauline epistles by editors or collators or the Marcionite canon glosses added into the Pauline epistles by editors or final redactors of the orthodox canon, or, they could, in fact, be original They [ie. Paul's references to my g...

. "Arius' entire effort consisted precisely in acclimatizing Plotinic logic within biblical creationism." Arianism It is variably said that Arianism held that the pre-existent Son of God was directly created by the Father, before all ages; that the Son is distinct and subordinate to God t...

Homoousion / ὁμοούσιον,  'same in being, same in essence.' From ὁμός, homós , "same"; and οὐσία, ousía , "essence" (later "being"). Oὐσία is an Ancient Greek noun, formed on the feminine present participle of the verb εἰμί, eimí , meaning "to be, I am" (so, si...

The Monarchian Prologues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchian_Prologues These are a set of Latin introductions to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with a Monarchian perspective. They were (+/- still are) thought to have been written in the second or third century by a ...

Monarchianism Monarchianism, said to have developed in the 2nd century, is said to have affirmed the absolute, sole unity of God (in contrast to and against other concepts of God such as binitarianism or trinitarianism; and in contrast to bi- or tri- theism). The term Monarchianism derives from the...

Middle Platonism Pneuma, or spirit (ghost-wind in the shell) IMO per Plato_2.0, Pneuma is the invisible power that imparts motion to humans like the invisible wind in a ship's sail causes a ship to have motion. Literally a ghost-wind that causes humans to move, eat, etc. when present and drop dead ...

3. Resurrection in Ancient Judaism From the second century BCE onward clear traces of resurrection can be found in some Jewish texts. Claudia Setzer summarises the ambivalent views of ancient Judaism admirably: … Jewish materials from the second century BCE through the first century CE exhibit a ra...

eta wrt 1 Cor 3:4: "He was raised" = ἐγήγερται / egēgertai : from ἐγείρω / egeiró : to waken, to raise up (7 of the 9 NT occurrences are in 1 Corinthians; one in Mark 6:14 (wrt Herod postulating John the Baptist) ; and one in Matthew 11:11 (it's a less common Greek verb for rise or raise ...

1 Cor 15:3-5 ought be considered in light of the previous two verses: 1 I now make known to you, brothers, the gospel a that I proclaimed b to you, which you received and in which you stand, 2 by which you are being/shall be saved, by which c logo [ s ] d I proclaimed b ... a εὐαγγέλιον / euangelion...