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Giuseppe wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:11 pm My point is more sound: once a canonical synoptic gospel is placed around the time of Marcion (second century) there are no reasons to place the others (one or all) still in the first century.

Never mind, you're talking about Luke.

Are you assuming that Marcion was responsible for the authorship of the Gospel that he published?

If not, how are you dating *Ev?

If I weren't already interested in the subject, you'd certainly help steer me away from it. That's a legacy.

Thanks. No, me neither, but I've only just started looking. We may yet find something when I piece together a synopsis. I also think we have enough data to say there is a literary relationship between Luke and the Evangelion, and I posit that the Evangelion is dependent on Luke (i realize you disag...

I have not found any yet.

Origen here is commenting on a biblical demiurgist proof text: 15.12 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" 15.13 He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up." C...

Origen comments that John was the "last of the prophets" (citing Luke 16:16), whose arrest and eventual death (when followed by Jesus) fulfilled Genesis 49:10: "A ruler shall not depart from Judah, nor a leader from Israel, until that come which is laid up in store, and he is the expe...

May have relevance for how some could have interpreted Mark 6:4 // Luke 4:24 // John 4:44 also. Commentary on Matthew 10.18 But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country. [Matthew 13:57] We must inquire whether the expression has the same force when applied univers...

There are a couple analogies here, including: The prophets and Moses had the function of "a tutor and stewards and guardians." (Galatians 3:24) In comparison to Christ, the scriptures appear as dung (Philippians 3:8), fertilizing a tree that bears fruit (Luke 13:8). Commentary on Matthew 1...

Celsus makes a remark, according to Platonist philosophy (objecting to the immortal divine Logos being "subject to change and reshaping"), to which Origen replies that what "appears to Celsus" is in error, and that he should learn that "while the Logos remains Logos in essen...