Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)Legge, Francis
Religion
Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
All the revelations in the _Pistis Sophia_ are in fact made in
anticipation of the time “when the universe shall be caught up,” and
the disciples be set to reign with Jesus in the Last Parastates. Cf.
especially pp. 193-206 Copt.
Footnote 555:
The idea may not have been peculiar to Valentinus and his followers.
So in the _Ascensio Isaiae_ (x. 8-13) the “Most High the Father of my
Lord” says to “my Lord Christ who will be called Jesus”: “And none of
the angels of that world shall know that thou art Lord with Me of the
seven heavens and of their angels. And they shall not know that Thou
art with Me till with a loud voice I have called to the heavens, and
their angels, and their lights, even unto the sixth heaven, in order
that you may judge and destroy the princes and angels and gods of that
world, and the world that is dominated by them.” Charles, _Ascension
of Isaiah_, pp. 70-71.
Footnote 556:
p. 194, Copt.
Footnote 557:
p. 230, Copt.
Footnote 558:
On the belief in the Millennium in the primitive Church, see
Döllinger, _First Age of Christianity and the Church_, Eng. ed. 1906,
pp. 119, 123 and 268 and Ffoulkes, _s.v._ Chiliasts, in _Dict.
Christian Biog._
Footnote 559:
p. 230, Copt. Cf. Luke xxii. 29, 30.
Footnote 560:
p. 231, Copt. “disciples” not apostles. So the Manichaeans made Manes
to be attended by twelve disciples. See Chap. XIII _infra_.
Footnote 561:
So Jesus says (p. 230, Copt.) of “the man who receives and
accomplishes the Mystery of the Ineffable One”; “he is a man in the
Cosmos, but he will reign with me in my kingdom; he is a man in the
Cosmos, but he is a king in the light; he is a man in the Cosmos, but
he is not of the Cosmos, and verily I say unto you, that man is I, and
I am that man.”
Footnote 562:
p. 246, Copt.
Footnote 563:
See last note and n. 5, p. 147 _supra_.
Footnote 564:
Hatch, _op. cit._ p. 302 and note.
Footnote 565:
pp. 236, 237, Copt.
Footnote 566:
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