Note to Readers: Let us diligently observe how these Early Christian apologists wrote and spoke of the Paraclete as always being the HOLY SPIRIT or Advocate or Intercessor ... but never "Redeemer+".
It would have behooved the translator / editor of the Netzarim's "Golden, Historic, and Best" Aramaic-English New Testament to check the Early Church Apologists if he were confused and / or chose not to rely upon the work of the standard and approved Peshitta translators, Drs. Etheridge, Murdock and Lamsa, for correction or understanding.
The Early Christian Apologists work to correct ALL heretical teachings and thus, one can be saved from ignominious statements ... both receiving them and making them ... if one lays to heart the work of these Early Christian Martyrs and Confessors from the Unified Christian Church of the first 3 centuries. It is a shame not to do so.
The Early Christian Apologists work to correct ALL heretical teachings and thus, one can be saved from ignominious statements ... both receiving them and making them ... if one lays to heart the work of these Early Christian Martyrs and Confessors from the Unified Christian Church of the first 3 centuries. It is a shame not to do so.
HIPPOLYTUS, ANF Vol 5, Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus: Dogmatical and Historical, Discourse on the Holy Theophany, p. 237, Sections 8,9, and 10
8. But give me now your best attention, I pray you, for I wish to go back to the fountain of life, and to view the fountain that gushes with healing.
The Father of Immortality sent the Immortal SON+ and WORD+ into the world, WHO+ came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and HE+, begetting us again to incorruption of soul and body, breathed into us the breath (spirit) of life, and endued us with an incorruptible panoply [ a display of all appropriate appurtenances... SrJH].
If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God.[ i.e, "Divine" in the sense of being regenerated back into the family of God , as Adam was in the beginning. Ed.Footnote #6: 2 Peter 1:4... "that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature." ...SrJH ] And if he is made God by water and the Holy Spirit after the regeneration of the laver he is found to be also joint-heir with Christ after the resurrection from the dead.
Wherefore I preach to this effect:
Come, all ye kindreds of the nations, to the immortality of the baptism.
I bring good tidings of life to you who tarry in the darkness of ignorance. Come into liberty from slavery, into a kingdom from tyranny, into incorruption from corruption. And how, saith one, shall we come?
How?
By water and the Holy Spirit.
This is the water in conjunction with the Spirit, by which paradise is watered, by which the earth is enriched, by which plants grow, by which animals multiply, and (to sum up the whole in a single word) by which man is begotten again and endued with life, in which also Christ was baptized, and in which the Spirit descended in the form of a dove.
9. This is the Spirit that at the beginning “moved upon the face of the waters;” by whom the world moves; by whom creation consists, and all things have life;
who also wrought mightily in the prophets, and descended in flight upon Christ. This is the Spirit that was given to the apostles in the form of fiery tongues.
This is the Spirit that David sought when he said,
“Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me."
Of this Spirit Gabriel also spoke to the Virgin, “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.”
By this Spirit Peter spake that blessed word,
“THOU+ art the CHRIST,
the SON+ of the LIVING GOD.”
By this Spirit the rock of the Church was stablished.
This is the Spirit, the Comforter,
that is sent because of THEE+,
that HE may show THEE+
to be the SON+ of GOD.
10. Come then, be begotten again, O man, into the adoption of God. And how? says one.
If thou practicest adultery no more,
and committest not murder,
and servest not idols;
if thou art not overmastered by pleasure;
if thou dost not suffer the feeling of pride to rule thee;
if thou cleanest off the filthiness of impurity,
and puttest off the burden of sin;
if thou castest off the armor of the devil, and puttest on the breastplate of faith, even as Isaiah saith,
“Wash you, and seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless,
and plead for the widow.
And come and let us reason together,
saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet,
I shall make them white as snow;
and though they be like crimson,
I shall make them white as wool.
And if ye be willing, and hear my voice,
ye shall eat the good of the land.”
Do you see, beloved, how the prophet spake beforetime of the purifying power of baptism?
For he who comes down in faith to the laver of regeneration, and renounces the devil, and joins himself to Christ;
who denies the enemy, and makes the confession that Christ is God;
who puts off the bondage, and puts on the adoption,
— he comes up from the baptism brilliant as the sun, flashing forth the beams of righteousness, and, which is indeed the chief thing, he returns a son [ teknon = child., ed. note in footnote, SrJH ] of God and joint-heir with Christ.
To Him+ be the glory and the power,
together with His+ most holy,
and good, and quickening Spirit,
now and ever,
and to all the ages of the ages.
Amen.
REFERENCES
NOTE: Material is from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volumes 1-10, American Edition ( a reprint of Christian Literature Publishing Co. 1886), 2nd printing 1995, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, MA. ISBN 1-56563-087-4
Some supplemental information and dates are from: David W. Bercot, editor, A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998. ISBN 978-1-56563-870-9 [ Scroll Publishing www.scrollpublishing.com ]
Digital Copy from: The Master Christian Library Version 8 CD-ROM 2000 Ages Softward, Rio, WI www.ageslibrary.com
NOTE: This Digital Copy of the ANF does NOT contain any Introductory Notes from the translators and editors, no footnotes, and no elucidations and comments at the end of the books, although these helpful items are contained in the hard copy listed above.
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NOTE: Comments [in green] are from the Order of The GOOD SHEPHERD+; extra words [in black] are in the text from the editors. Color added to pronouns, etc., for clarity.
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