The Early Church a History of Christianity in the First Six Centuries
The Early Church a History of Christianity in the First Six Centuries
David Duff
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3 Like Cerinthus, Basilides ap- pears to have held that the vov<; left Jesus at the time of the 1 Compare Cerinthus.
2 In the west it was rather the manifestation to the Magi.
3 According to Neander, Epiphany was 6rst observed by Jiulreo-Christians. This is a conjecture.
GNOSTICISM. 181 Passion, and that what Jesus suffered He suffered, not as the Redeemer, but simply as a man and, like other men, not without sin, though in Him sin was reduced to a minimum. The idea of substitutionary suffering does not enter into the system. Every man must personally make expiation, and special blessedness belongs to the martyr who has the oppor- tunity of making atonement by the voluntary surrender of his life.
According to some representations, Basilides taught not only generally that all the passions to which man is subject spring from the matter in which his spirit is immersed, but that the particular objects, animate and inanimate, with which he is surrounded, tend to produce effects corresponding with their own nature.
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