Hierocles's connection with Egypt and the absence of Christians in Egypt

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Giuseppe
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Hierocles's connection with Egypt and the absence of Christians in Egypt

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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"
It seems to me that Egypt was an obstacle for Christian missionaries insofar the Alexandrians were more inclined than other people to accuse Jesus as seditionist.
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