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Hebrew wander wrote:Also the earliest copies of new testament didn't even have Jesus's name according to the codex as well.
The archaeology used commonly to claim the earliest appearances of Jesus Christ and Christianity in the record is shown here to be false: they are ‘interpolations’ and misreadings of panhellenistic symbols. Christianity first appears unequivocally in the early fourth century and we have found not a single artefact, including text, bearing the term Christ and dated reliably before the fourth century. What then, of Chrest and Chrestians – what happened to them? They were the subject of prosecution, because their commercial, low magic (theurgy) was illegal and under the emperor Diocletian, reached a high point, recorded by a member of the imperial court, Lactantius. Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (ca. 240 – ca. 320), a Latin-speaking native of North Africa, was an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son. In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native place, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions a certain ‘L. Caecilius Firmianus’. At the request of Diocletian, he became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia, the voyage from Africa described in his poem Hodoeporicum. There he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the philosopher Porphyry; here he will first have met Constantine and Galerius. LACTANTIUS. [TRANSLATED BY THE REV. WILLIAM FLETCHER, D.D.] CHAP. VII.—OF THE NAME OF SON, AND WHENCE HE IS CALLED JESUS AND CHRIST. …But although His name, which the supreme Father gave Him from the beginning, is known to none but Himself, nevertheless He has one name among the angels, and another among men, since He is called Jesus among men: for Christ is not a proper name, but a title of power and dominion; for by this the Jews were accustomed to call their kings. But the meaning of this name must be set forth, on account of the error of the ignorant, who by the change of a letter are accustomed to call Him Chrestus. Editorial note: Suetonius speaks of Christ as Chrestus. The Christians also were called Chrestians, as Tertullian shows in his Apology. Here we have an open admission to how Chrest becomes Christ. After this point in time, Chrest is Christ, Chrestians are Christians and monks began the process we noted, supra, of changing the biblical texts accordingly. It also remained to claim panhellenic symbols used in Chrestian texts as ‘nomina sacra’ for Christianity.
The archaeology used commonly to claim the earliest appearances of Jesus Christ and Christianity in the record is shown here to be false: they are ‘interpolations’ and misreadings of panhellenistic symbols.
Christianity first appears unequivocally in the early fourth century and we have found not a single artefact, including text, bearing the term Christ and dated reliably before the fourth century.
What then, of Chrest and Chrestians – what happened to them? They were the subject of prosecution, because their commercial, low magic (theurgy) was illegal and under the emperor Diocletian, reached a high point, recorded by a member of the imperial court, Lactantius.
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (ca. 240 – ca. 320), a Latin-speaking native of North Africa, was an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son. In his early life, he taught rhetoric in his native place, which may have been Cirta in Numidia, where an inscription mentions a certain ‘L. Caecilius Firmianus’.
At the request of Diocletian, he became an official professor of rhetoric in Nicomedia, the voyage from Africa described in his poem Hodoeporicum. There he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the philosopher Porphyry; here he will first have met Constantine and Galerius.
LACTANTIUS. [TRANSLATED BY THE REV. WILLIAM FLETCHER, D.D.] CHAP. VII.—OF THE NAME OF SON, AND WHENCE HE IS CALLED JESUS AND CHRIST. …But although His name, which the supreme Father gave Him from the beginning, is known to none but Himself, nevertheless He has one name among the angels, and another among men, since He is called Jesus among men: for Christ is not a proper name, but a title of power and dominion; for by this the Jews were accustomed to call their kings. But the meaning of this name must be set forth, on account of the error of the ignorant, who by the change of a letter are accustomed to call Him Chrestus. Editorial note: Suetonius speaks of Christ as Chrestus. The Christians also were called Chrestians, as Tertullian shows in his Apology.
LACTANTIUS.
[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. WILLIAM FLETCHER, D.D.]
CHAP. VII.—OF THE NAME OF SON, AND WHENCE HE IS CALLED JESUS AND CHRIST.
…But although His name, which the supreme Father gave Him from the beginning, is known to none but Himself, nevertheless He has one name among the angels, and another among men, since He is called Jesus among men: for Christ is not a proper name, but a title of power and dominion; for by this the Jews were accustomed to call their kings. But the meaning of this name must be set forth, on account of the error of the ignorant, who by the change of a letter are accustomed to call Him Chrestus.
Editorial note: Suetonius speaks of Christ as Chrestus. The Christians also were called Chrestians, as Tertullian shows in his Apology.
Here we have an open admission to how Chrest becomes Christ. After this point in time, Chrest is Christ, Chrestians are Christians and monks began the process we noted, supra, of changing the biblical texts accordingly.
It also remained to claim panhellenic symbols used in Chrestian texts as ‘nomina sacra’ for Christianity.
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