I. The Jewish Doctors: From Philo to Plotinus the Jewish teachers steadily deeschatologized and de-literalized the Scriptures. (N. Bentwich, Jewish Quarterly Review 4:1-21). “…the initiative in the attempt to stamp out orthodox Judaism and to hellenize the Jews was not taken by Antiochus, but by the influential body of hellenistic Jews.” (Oesterley, Apoc., 29). The …
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Abraham,
anti-Christ,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
baptism,
Cain,
Catholic(s),
central lack of authority,
Christian(s) church,
Christian(s) Early,
Christian(s) philosophers,
Clement,
Clementine Recognitions,
Constantine,
Consubstantial",
Council of Nicea,
dispensation(s),
doctrinal vacuum,
doctrine,
doctrine(s),
Early Christian philosophers,
Egypt,
Emperor,
Eusebius,
evolution,
falsified,
forged,
fulfillment,
Gnostics,
God,
Great Assembly Gap,
Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity,
Ignatius,
Israel,
James the Just,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Justinian,
manuscript(s),
nation(s),
New Education Testament,
Noah,
Origen (early church father),
Paul,
Peter,
philosophers,
philosophy,
prediction,
Pseudo-Gospels,
rejected,
repentance,
scholar(s),
scripture(s),
Secrets of the Kingdom,
servants,
Socrates,
St. Augustine,
teaching,
Tertullian,
the Church Fathers,
The LORD,
the Primitive Church,
tribe(s),
Two Ways
23 pp., mimeographed class handout, ca.1952. A compendium of passages from the New Testament, the early fathers of the Church, and from historians of Christian antiquity on the question of the apostasy. — Midgley