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,…
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…
In the eighth chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul offers a brief yet penetrating warning against one of the most spiritually corrosive sins: idolatry. While…
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…
In the eleventh chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians—preserved in the Apostolicon of the Testamentum—the Apostle Paul addresses a troubling disorder within the Corinthian assembly: divisions emerging during…