tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post8583059719987909309..comments2024-03-27T03:32:53.817-05:00Comments on Euangelion: Pseudo-Clementine LiteratureMichael F. Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-27765272878516903242009-07-28T13:25:45.998-05:002009-07-28T13:25:45.998-05:00That Jesus is constantly referred to as "The ...That Jesus is constantly referred to as "The True Prophet" or simply "The Prophet" rather than as Christ or Son of God, or simply God, or the Word, shows that the Pseudo-Clementines are of Ebionite origin rather than Gentile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-71730995886061077332008-05-28T14:01:00.000-05:002008-05-28T14:01:00.000-05:00It doesn't take much stretch of the imagination to...It doesn't take much stretch of the imagination to realise that Book 1 of Recognitions was originally written by a Jewish author. In Chapter 1, I suggest the editor changed:<BR/>"spirit of truth" to "lover of chastity" and "spirit of deceit" to "bent of my mind". The original contained the two spirits of the DSS - the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. I see Chapter 1 as something like: I JOSEPHUS, who was born in the city of Rome, HAD from my earliest age a SPIRIT of TRUTH; while my SPIRIT OF DECEIT held me bound as with chains. For THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH that was in me FROM GOD constantly led me to think of my condition of PURITY, and to discuss such questions as these: Whether there be for MY SPIRIT any EXISTENCE after death, or whether MY SPIRIT IS to be wholly annihilated: whether MY SPIRIT did NOT EXIST before I was born, and whether there shall be no remembrance BY MY SPIRIT after death, and so GOD shall consign all SPIRITS to DISSOLUTION; so that not only shall OUR SPIRITS cease to be, but there shall be no remembrance that OUR SPIRITS have ever been. This also I revolved in my SPIRIT OF TRUTH: when the SPIRIT was made, or what was before it was made, or whether it has existed from eternity? For it seemed certain, that if it had been made, it must be SUBJECT to DISSOLUTION; and if it be dissolved, what is to be afterwards? - unless, perhaps, all SPIRITS shall be buried in oblivion and silence, or something shall be, which the SPIRIT of man cannot now conceive.geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-48550860365098349072008-05-28T07:43:00.000-05:002008-05-28T07:43:00.000-05:00Recognitions, Book 1, was originally about the ear...Recognitions, Book 1, was originally about the early life of Josephus (not Clement) in Rome and his introduction to the Spirit ministry of James (not Barnabas). The source account was originally in Josephus' Life - Life has a terse introduction to the point where Josephus is in his 26th year. Josephus' biography has clearly been truncated probably by his Flavian editors.geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-40211263694994392982008-05-27T08:38:00.000-05:002008-05-27T08:38:00.000-05:00Pseudo-Clementines? Sounds like it ought to have a...Pseudo-Clementines? Sounds like it ought to have a subtitle: The Confessions of a Satsuma. Or maybe it's the lost album by Tangerine Dream? I dunno, life eh - what do you make of it?<BR/><BR/>Oh, and by the way, I have an Aunty Pauline - honest! She's cool.minternationalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17747517962783816504noreply@blogger.com