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  • Cerinthus is stated to have died before John; as then he borrowed much in his Pseudo-Apocalypse from

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Sulpitia's elegies describe her love for Cerinthus, which is a pseudonym.

    The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

  • Teachers such as Cerinthus, clung to the notion that the universal religion revealed by Christ was identical with undefined Mosaism, and therefore maintained even such articles as circumcision and the Sabbath commandment, as well as the earthly kingdom of the future.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • And see, especially, the able articles, "Cerinthus" and "Ebionism and Ebionites", in the ` Dictionary of Christian Biography ', etc., edited by

    An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

  • Cerinthus taught that the Christ descended on Jesus of Nazareth at his baptism and departed from him before his passion, so that although Jesus was physically born, suffered and died, the Christ remained spiritual and untouched by suffering ...

    Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

  • I believe, that in addition to docetists christians (who believed that Jesus only seemed to suffer), separationist as the followers of Cerinthus (c 100 CE), were the opponents of Ignatius in his letter to Trallians.

    Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010

  • Obstruit, quod Ebion,/Cerinthus et Marcion/Perfide latravit.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Abas sent; but he was not destined to return to Cerinthus.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • [6076] Cerinthus rejected Sulpitia, a nobleman's daughter, and courted a poor servant maid. — tanta est aliena in messe voluptas, for that [6077] stolen waters be more pleasant: or as Vitellius the emperor was wont to say,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There are eleven Apocalypses, which are attributed to the patriarchs and prophets, to St. Peter, Cerinthus, St. Thomas, St. Stephen the first martyr, two to St. John, differing from the canonical one, and three to St. Paul.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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