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by MrMacSon
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: κολοβοδάκτυλος
Replies: 33
Views: 698

Re: κολοβοδάκτυλος

... 'Hippolytus' , Refut .7.30.1 : "When, therefore, Marcion, or any of his dogs, shall bay against the Demiurge, bringing forward arguments from the comparison of good and evil, they should be told that neither the apostle Paul nor 'short-measure' Mark reported these things — for none of them...
by MrMacSon
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:40 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcion and the Philosophers (split from: κολοβοδάκτυλος)
Replies: 7
Views: 128

Re: κολοβοδάκτυλος

I can't believe that no one has suggested this before. κολοβοδάκτυλος means "truncated-length" (or "short-measured") κολοβός = cut [curtailed, docked, truncated, undersized, short] δάκτυλος = [a] measure [a finger-width; as well as a finger (or toe) per se ] The measures of Hero...
by MrMacSon
Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Jesus' home in Capernaum?
Replies: 28
Views: 687

Re: Jesus' home in Capernaum?

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/2.htm and https://biblehub.com/greek/oiko__3624.htm That phrase "ἐν οἴκῳ ἐστίν" rendered in the interlinear as "in (the)-house he-is" (I added dashes). The noun "house" is in the nominative case, so it doesn't necessarily mean &quo...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: How Could the Gospel of Marcion NOT be Older?
Replies: 36
Views: 581

Are you referring to the account of Markos the Valentinian in book 6, sections 39ff and/or the account of Marcion in book 7? 39 .1. ... Markos was an expert in magic. He deceived many people by practicing some feats by trickery, and others by demons. This fool used to declare that there was in him t...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: How Could the Gospel of Marcion NOT be Older?
Replies: 36
Views: 581

Re: How Could the Gospel of Marcion NOT be Older?

The Philosophemena aka The Refutation of All Heresies ( Greek: Φιλοσοφούμενα ή κατὰ πασῶν αἱρέσεων ἔλεγχος;* Latin: Refutatio Omnium Haeresium ) whose attribution to Hippolytus of Rome or an unknown "Pseudo-Hippolytus" is disputed (Litwa calls the author 'the Refutator') The first book, a...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?
Replies: 6
Views: 170

Re: Personification of Group Dynamics: Mishmarot Problem or Christian?

` He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me . ' I wonder if this reflects the heresiologists attempts to portray Jesus's predominance and priority in the same way they [now] seem to have been rewriting history to give proto-catholic orthodoxy priority over the so-called non-orthod...
by MrMacSon
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: ἀνασταυροῦντας in Hebrews 6:6
Replies: 6
Views: 167

Re: ἀνασταυροῦντας in Hebrews 6:6

The term with the prefix ana- was used in pre-xian times for suspending or attaching a body to a stake or wooden instrument. Josephus uses the term in similar fashion as shown in these two examples from here --- https://www.academia.edu/9929914/Hanging_and_Crucifixion_in_Second_Temple_Israel_Deuter...
by MrMacSon
Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?
Replies: 10
Views: 293

Re: Could the nomina sacra denote the presence of Jesus?

Be that as it may, there may still be something to this idea of the divine presence being in the nomina sacra . So far the best explanation I've heard is that ΙΣ with a bar over it is the original first nomina sacra ... I'm pretty sure that the first nomina sacra were for Lord and God/Theos (or the...
by MrMacSon
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:37 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Doubting again about the Baptist Passage in Josephus...
Replies: 25
Views: 334

Re: Doubting again about the Baptist Passage in Josephus...

I've seen an argument somewhere that the relevant passage - τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰησοῦ τοῦ λεγομένου Χριστοῦ - is simply a combination of Gal 1:19 and 2-3 passages in G.John and G.Matthew τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰησοῦ in Ant 20.200/9.1 cf. τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Κυρίου in Gal 1:19 τοῦ λεγομένου Χριστοῦ in Ant 20.200/9.1 and in...