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Just curious Andrew, what's the actual evidence for the pre-existence of the Constantinople Creed other than the reference in the Ancoratus? IIUC there is no direct evidence at all. However, there is surprisingly weak evidence that the Constantinople Creed was composed at the council in 381. The ea...

It would seem that Pseudo-Tertullian was used by all late heresiologists - Epiphanius and Filaster - https://books.google.com/books?id=C97_rPZRbuUC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=filaster+cerinthus&source=bl&ots=pEdza1_Qsp&sig=HSIm3ZuB5ZGgqofUQVa-32nFAwk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0a...

There is a real question about whether what Paul means in 1 Corinthians 2:9 is the same as the meaning of the later parallels. 9 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 10 these things God has revealed...

So the timeline of publications by Epiphanius: 374 Ancoratus was written 375 - 377 Panarion was composed as something of a sequel to the Ancoratus (owing to E's allusion to various heresies that puzzled the two abbots to whom the Ancoratus was addressed) 381 Creed of Constantinople was established ...

I think I have solidified the secondary nature of the insertion process with this quote: ... just in the same manner in which the Constantinopolitan Creed has been inserted in the "Ancoratus" of St. Epiphanius by the scribe Anatolius, but so clumsily as to leave the description of it as t...

This blog post Does Mark’s Jesus prophesy the destruction of the Temple ? may possibly be relevant.

Andrew Criddle

After staring at these materials for a few days now, I have developed some distinct opinions about them. Some of these opinions are informed by The Rock on Rocky Ground , by Mark Goodacre; others are completely my own. I will be focusing here, at least for the time being, upon what Simon/Peter/Ceph...

Ben wrote: If this reconstruction is correct, then Paul went to visit Cephas (1.18, assuming for the sake of argument that this is part of the original text) in Jerusalem, and then went again to visit the three pillars: James, Cephas, and John. Later, however, in Antioch, he had a run-in with a dif...

The text of the Palestinian Syriac lectionary is indeed largely independent of the Syriac text underlying the Arabic Diatessaron.

This does not imply that it goes back (in anything like its present form) to the 2nd century. It is probably later than Cyril of Jerusalem (4th century).

Andrew Criddle

Not only the Leper is puzzling. I don't understand why the authors of the severe criticism against the woman become in Matthew the "disciples" and not "those who were present". Is not Matthew an apologist of these disciples, against Mark? Mark 14:3-9 3 While he was in Bethany, r...