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Basilides
[People]Basilides was a Christian Gnostic teacher who taught in Alexandria, Egypt, in the first half of the second century. The Church Fathers treated him as a leading representative of heresy and attributed to him the claim that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in place of Jesus.
Ignatius of Antioch
[People]Ignatius of Antioch was bishop of the church in Antioch in the early second century. While being taken to Rome for martyrdom, he wrote seven letters. He is counted among the Apostolic Fathers.
Assumption of Moses
[Bible]The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish pseudepigraphal work framed as Moses foretelling Israel's future to Joshua before his death. Early church fathers explained that the account in Jude 1:9 of Michael disputing with the devil came from this book.
Gospel of the Hebrews
[History]The Gospel of the Hebrews is a New Testament apocryphal gospel said to have been read among Christians of Jewish origin around the second century. No copy survives, and the work is known only from a few passages quoted by the Church Fathers.
Ebionites
[Doctrine & Theology]The Ebionites were a Jewish Christian group that existed from the first to the fourth century. Because they insisted on observance of the Mosaic Law and regarded Jesus as a man chosen by God, the early church fathers described them as a group that had departed from orthodoxy.
Gregory I
[People]Gregory I (c. 540–604) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 590 to 604. He is regarded as one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church and is also known as Gregory the Great.
Scholasticism
[History]Scholasticism was a method of learning that developed in the schools and universities of Western Europe from around the eleventh century to the end of the Middle Ages. While accepting the authority of Scripture and the Church Fathers, it sought to explain the content of the faith systematically through logical questioning and disputation.
Psalm 44
[Bible]Psalm 44 is a song of the sons of Korah. In this lament, the community recalls God's deliverance in the days of their fathers and then cries out "Awake" because it has suffered defeat and shame despite keeping the covenant.
Jeremiah 30
[Bible]Jeremiah 30 is a prophecy of restoration in which God promises to bring again the captivity of Israel and Judah and return them to the land of their fathers. It speaks of "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the deliverance that follows, the healing of the people's wounds, and the covenant promise, "Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God."
Colossians 3
[Bible]Colossians 3 urges believers who have been raised with Christ to seek those things which are above, and to put off the old man and put on the new. The chapter closes with a household code addressed to wives and husbands, children and fathers, and servants.
Marcionism
[Heresies & Cults]Marcionism is the teaching of the second-century teacher Marcion and his followers. It held that the Creator God of the Old Testament and the God who sent Jesus Christ were distinct beings, rejected the Old Testament, and established its own canon of Scripture. The early Church Fathers repudiated it as a heresy.
Philo of Alexandria
[People]Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BC – c. AD 50) was a Jewish philosopher who interpreted the Pentateuch in light of Greek philosophy. Through his allegorical interpretation and his doctrine of the Logos, he influenced the biblical interpretation of the early Church Fathers.
Deuteronomy 7
[Bible]Deuteronomy 7 is the chapter in which Moses commands Israel, as it prepares to enter Canaan, to destroy the seven nations and their idols. It declares that God chose Israel not because of its great numbers but because of his love and the oath he swore to their fathers.
Valentinus
[People]Valentinus (c. 100 – c. 160) was a second-century Christian teacher active in Rome, known as the founder of the Valentinians, one of the largest movements within early Christian Gnosticism.
Ezekiel 18:30–32
[Bible Verses]Ezekiel's call to repentance addressed to Israel during the Babylonian exile, declaring that each person will be judged according to his ways and that God takes no pleasure in the death of the one who dies, so the people should turn and live. The passage is frequently cited in preaching on repentance and in discussions of predestination and free will.
Antiochene School
[Doctrine & Theology]The Antiochene School was an early church theological tradition centered in Antioch in Syria during the fourth and fifth centuries that emphasized the literal and historical meaning of Scripture and the true humanity of Christ.
2 Peter 3:8–9
[Bible Verses]A passage declaring that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, and that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise because He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. It answers the problem of the delay of the Second Coming and has also been drawn into debates over the length of the creation days and attempts to calculate the end times.
Colossians 4:1
[Bible Verses]A verse at the close of the household code in Colossians that commands masters to give their servants what is "just and equal," on the ground that masters, too, are accountable to a Master in heaven. It is frequently cited in discussions of the Bible and slavery and of workplace ethics.
Ezekiel 18:23
[Bible Verses]A verse in the Book of Ezekiel declaring that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but desires that they turn and live. It is frequently cited in calls to repentance, and in debates over predestination, various denominations engage with it in discussing how God's will should be understood.
Bochim
[Bible]Bochim is a place mentioned in Judges 2:1-5. Its name, meaning "weepers," arose because the people of Israel lifted up their voices and wept there after being rebuked by the angel of the LORD.