From ἀπολλώς to παῦλος
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:13 am
- 1) traces of hermetism in the pauline epistles (argument about this)
- 2) Apollos in Acts as a figure in the middle between Sethianism/Hermetism and Jewish-Christianity . Proof based basically on two reasons:
- FIRST REASON: Apollos's ignorance about the holy spirit against the Gospel portrait of John the Baptist as prophet of a baptism by holy spirit would make Apollos a proto-mandean (= hater of YHWH).
- SECOND REASON:
- 1 Corinthians 12, 8–10 (Paul who talks about the seven charisms) are based on a hermetic text (argument on this)
- the story in Acts about the talking in tongues (by the disciples of John, after their conversion to the baptism of Jesus) is based on 1 Corinthians 12:8-10
- in Acts the talking in tongues in Pentecoste is based on the story in Acts about the conversion of the followers of John the Baptist
- for the virtue transitive, the glossolalia is a legend based on a hermetic text.
- similarity of sound: Apollos (ἀπολλώς) and Paul (παῦλος): Paul is invented to eclipse Apollos.