The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive ChristianityLillie, Arthur
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The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity
Lillie, Arthur
Buddhism; Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism
"It is blessed to give rather than to receive.
"Keep the mysteries for me and for the sons of my house.
"I am not come to call the just, but sinners.
"There is not thank to you if ye love them that love you; but there is
thank to you if ye love your enemies and them that hate you.
"For there shall be false Christs, false prophets, false apostles,
heresies, lovings of rule.
"Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but he
that doeth righteousness.
"If ye have been gathered with me into my bosom, and do not my
commandments, I will cast you away and will say unto you, Depart from
me, I know not whence ye are, workers of iniquity.
"And the Lord said, Ye shall be as lambkins in the midst of wolves. And
Peter answered and said, If then the wolves rend the lambkins asunder?
Jesus said to Peter, Let not the lambkins after they are dead fear the
wolves. And do ye not fear them that kill you and can do nought unto
you. But fear him who, after you are dead, hath authority over soul and
body to cast into the Gehenna of fire.
"Just now my mother, the Holy Spirit, took me by one of my hairs and
bore me up to the great mountain of Tabor.
"He that hath marvelled shall reign, and he that hath reigned shall
rest.
"I am he concerning whom Moses prophesied, saying, A prophet will the
Lord our God raise unto you from your brethren even as me. Him hear ye
in all things, for whosoever heareth not that prophet shall die."
Here is the account of the woman taken in adultery afterwards borrowed
by John:--
"And they went each to his own house, and Jesus went to the Mount of
Olives.
"And at dawn he came again into the temple, and all the people came to
him; and having sat down, he taught them.
"And the scribes and the Pharisees brought up a woman taken up for
adultery.
"And having placed her in the midst, they said to him, Teacher, this
woman hath been taken up in adultery, in the very act;
"And in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What therefore dost
thou say?
"And this they said, trying him, that they might have whereby to
accuse him.
"But Jesus having bent down, kept writing with his finger upon the
ground.
"But as they continued asking him, he unbent and said to them, Let the
sinless one of you first cast against her the stone. And having bent
down again he kept writing on the ground.
"But they having heard, went out one by one, beginning from the elder
ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman.
"And Jesus having unbent, said to her, Mistress, where are they? Hath
none condemned thee?
"And she said, None, sir. And Jesus said, Neither will I condemn thee,
go and from this time sin no more."
The evidence accumulates. Justin gives the voice from the sky exactly
as it is given in the Gospel of the Apostles.
"Thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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