Finding the Author of the First Gospel?
  • Marcion was one of the “great Christian heretics” according to the early Church Fathers. He taught that there were two gods: a supreme All-Good God who was revealed for the first time by Jesus Christ, and the lesser God of the Old Testament and of the Jews, who was the God of justice and … Continue reading "Finding the Author of the First Gospel?"

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Linus Rome's First Bishop, Clement’s Letter, Scriptures & Miracles

The following extracts are taken from Eusebius’ Church History. All emphasis is mine. 

Book III

Chapter 2. The First Successor to St. Peter in Rome. 

  1. After the martyrdom of Paul and of Peter, Linus was the first to obtain the episcopate of the church at Rome. Paul mentions him, when writing to Timothy from Rome, in the salutation at the end of the epistle.

Chapter 3. The Epistles of the…

Hippolytus: Bishop or Antipope?

In this post I will be citing a few sources regarding the status of St. Hippolytus, whether he was a bishop of Rome or of some other See, and if at Rome then whether he indeed was in actuality an antipope who set himself in opposition to the Roman bishop. All emphasis will be mine.

I begin with what Eusebius and Jerome wrote about him:

  1. Among these Beryllus has left us, besides letters and…
St. John & Polycarp vs. Cerinthus & Marcion the firstborn of Satan

St. Irenaeus mentions what the Apostle John exclaimed when he ran into the gnostic heretic Cerinthus. He also recalls what his Bishop St. Polycarp, the beloved and holy martyr and disciple of the holy Apostles, said to the heretic Marcion when he saw him in person. All emphasis will be mine.

Chapter 3 A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various churches, a perpetual…

Athanasius on Origen’s Christology

In his refutation to the Arians, the beloved saint and outstanding defenders of the most Glorious and Holy Trinity, St. Athanasius lists Origen among those who held to an orthodox of the Trinity and Deity of Christ. All emphasis will be mine.

Chapter 6.— Authorities in Support of the Council. Theognostus; Dionysius of Alexandria; Dionysius of Rome; Origen.

  1. This then is the sense in…
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