Hierocles's connection with Egypt and the absence of Christians in Egypt
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:26 pm
Are the two facts someway connected?
- Hierocles, who worked as Roman magistrate in Alexandria, accused Jesus as seditionist.
- We have zero news about early Christians of Egypt. No epistle by Paul addressed to Egyptians.
- Reinach argues that the first Christians who founded monastic communities in Egypt when the Empire was already Christian, were accused of sedition.
- Celsus accused a past life for Jesus already adult as Egyptian.
- Christians in Egypt (see Basilides) insisted particularly on Jesus being not crucified: out of embarrassment of the political meaning of the crucifixion? "Yes he appeared as crucified but really he was not"