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Doctrines of the Elchesaites (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
Elchesaites
Period
3rd century CE
4th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Hippolytus, Refutatio 9.15.1:
If someone … wishes to receive remission of his sins, let him, as soon as he has heard this book, be baptized a second time in the name of the great and most high God and in the name of his Son, the Great King.

Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 19.3.4:
On the other hand he (= Elxai) apparently confesses Christ in name, for he says that Christ is the Great King. But I have not fully understood from his deceitful and false formulation in the book filled with his nonsense, whether he spoke about our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion 19.3.4
Hippolytus, Refutatio 9.15.1

Bibliography

Luttikhuizen 1985, 49, 99Luttikhuizen Gerard P. The Revelation of Elchasai. Investigations into the Evidence for a Mesopotamian Jewish Apocalypse of the Second Century and its Reception by Judeo-Christian Propagandists. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr 1985.

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Cf. Doctrines of Elchesaites (2)

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