In the Evangelicon, John the Baptist appears as the divinely sent forerunner and prophet, the first true prophet of Christ’s testament, who prepares, bears witness, and then yields the stage…
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The Marcionite Church rejects the allegorical reading of the Hebrew Bible as a deceptive enterprise rooted not in revelation but in desperation. Allegory is the interpretive practice of assigning symbolic…
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Tertullian and Epiphanius both report that the Lord’s Prayer they found in Marcion’s Evangelicon—located at Evangelicon 10: 2-4—was the very prayer their own congregations recited. Yet Tertullian, almost in passing,…
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When the Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan around 112 AD, he unknowingly preserved one of the earliest and most evident testimonies of the true Christian Church—not…
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ was not only the defeat of death. It was the public overthrow of the principalities, powers, rulers, and devils that held mankind in bondage through…
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In the eighth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul warns the Church against idolatry and against the pride that may disguise itself as spiritual knowledge.…
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In the tenth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul—the true apostle of Jesus Christ—offers a profound meditation on suffering, temptation, and the development of the…
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In the eleventh chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, preserved in the Apostolicon of the Testamentum, the Apostle Paul addresses a grave disorder within the Corinthian assembly. The…
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In the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians—preserved in the Apostolicon of the Testamentum—the Apostle Paul presents what may be the most profound and enduring insight in…
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In the fourteenth chapter of the Apostle Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians—preserved in the Apostolicon of the Testamentum—we are confronted with a powerful contrast that remains just as vital…
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