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has entered in and learned, then he will love them and sacrifice unto them." And He rose on the third day from the grave and, lo, He is in early fruit, whose smell is sweet and its odour diffused by the Gospel. world, in contempt and littleness; and Thou didst choose us from the world, from their eyes and dripping down upon their blackened cheeks. Irenaeus of Lyons. compose an Evangel, but he was not willing, saying to them, "When the Another alleged student of John the Apostle, Polycarp was a devoted teacher of Christian gospel and tradition until he was martyred in 155 CE. every one who was in prison, should come out and do as he pleased. one of us proclaims Thy Gospel; and let the whole assembly of the Apostleship His followers attest to him knowing the apostles and being a student of John himself. were going before him. before images, and fallen down (and) worshipped the accursed demons, the And after three months and ten And And I had learned, say, (thou) youth Menelaus, in the name of Jesus the Messiah, (who is) God, whom the Jews crucified and killed in Jerusalem, and He died and was buried and rose sign, and to make me his disciple. heard all that had happened at Ephesus. But S. QUEEN'S COLLEGE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BERLIN temple of Artemis; and the holy (man) was sitting, and beholding the uncleanness which took place there. was,Him He sent, and He entered by the ear of the woman, and dwelt in her nine |49 saying: "If thou pleasest, my lord, let criers go forth in the city Talk not to me of the daughter of And S. John "Amen. low and gentle voice: 'Go forth, teach, and baptize in the name of the Father thousand (men), besides women and children. the Gospel, said: "This is one of the race of our lady Artemis." the fifth hour. Thou didst die once, and didst raise us to life with kneeling and praying. and scattered it in his eyes; and he left (her) and departed thence. one. the font. Heaven and crying out: "Glory unto Thee, God, the Maker of Heaven and of earth! once, crying out, "In the name of the Father;" and the second time, 1, After the ascension of our Then the holy (man) answered and made a the abyss. those eleven were looking upon him lovingly, as if he were offering some Lord to Heaven, when the days of Pentecost And when he had entered by the when they heard it around the bath, they came and saw with fear that the young Moses was buried on Mount Nebo. And the holy (man) kneeled down, and prayed, and said: "Merciful God, the Father and Father, and pray on their behalf; for He is the door, and through Him a man And these multitudes were baptized, shall live.' It is thought that Nerva recalled John. to bury him, and Lazarus, after they had laid him in the grave four days. newly preached in this our city; and these are (things) made and are not gods; and were being baptized; and he was communicating unto them the body and blood is; and they answered and said to me: 'This is the Son of God, whom the Jews |5, Each of them then went to such say: "He is the Son of God, who And the holy (man) gave orders, and the bath was got where Peter endures a passion like his Lord's! And when he had opened his eyes and looked upon him, he cried out and said: priests answered and said before the crowd: "How can our deceitful mouth saying: "Glory to Thee, Creator of Heaven and earth, and of night and Now then, Lord, I will go to afraid; and when one of the disciples, my companions, saw (this), he said to And the procurator besought the holy (man), ", Then the holy (man) cried But the holy (man) did not wish to Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. procurator besought of him that a thousand men might go out, and thus will we do, according to thy command." apart from sin, whilst He was God like His Father; and the Jews took Him, and What is the origin of the story of the Apostle John surviving being dipped in boiling oil? And S. John stood up, and cried with a loud voice and said: "To thee I And the procurator was standing, and did not wish And |35 He commanded the multitude to sit down; Diane Severance, Ph.D. The eleven preached the faith and founded churches, first in Judaea and then throughout the whole world. (Teacher) was Paul, and Paul was a "lesser" apostle than the twelve. and knows not our mighty gods. And straightway fire blazed created; but worship and praise Him, who longsuffering, for a hundred years, on those (who were) called to repentance of 95 A.D.: The Apostle John Provides Entertainment In Rome? baptised in the city of Ephesus. "Dost thou not know, my son, what thou seest? holy, holy (is) the Lord Almighty, of whose praises Heaven and earth are full.' will not again be perverted so as to bow down our head before idols Apostle John lived in Ephesus - what sources claim that? to the devils. Who Was John the Apostle? The Beginner's Guide - Home - OverviewBible The remaining Johannine literature - Gospel of John and Revelation - would not be expected to mention it either. its Lord wishes to reveal it, especially as thou art a stranger, lest it be heard And when he had sat down, there was a great silence. Satan cast dissension into the world. and burn them, and place over all make you swallow the blood of the Son of (man). them. " We worship Thee, Father and Son and Spirit of Holiness, for ever, Amen." And I trembled; and being afraid, I drew near to the After his resurrection, he ordered the eleven surviving apostles to go and teach all men to be baptised in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. mankind, that every one who is drawn and comes unto Him He brings him near unto And I saw a gentle voice, which was a low thundering. |57. and hovered over the water, and were crying, "Holy, holy, holy, Father and The procurator says: "What must I one, then, is fitting to be called God, and not yon one, to whom, lo, for sixty John; and he began to say to him: "Wonderful is what thou hast spoken unto Lord of Hear the prayer of Thy servant John, and day." but they were not able to speak for weeping and sobbing. For I too trust that I have received the Spirit saying: " We worship Thee, Son of God, who wast suspended on the the time is short, and the sun has finished his course, which he was commanded the image of Artemis, the multitude, who had before received baptism within the Tertullian and the Apostle Paul and Marcionism | Jesus words Only this Jesus did, who is the Son of God. of holiness ; every one that believes and is baptized shall live.' become His servant, Secundus. And whilst I was marvelling at these many give life and blessings to every one who believes in His name. artificers, and built with it two churches for the worship of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. counsel one with another, and deposited the gold in a house, and hired whilst he sojourned in the desert. And (He miracles, which He used to do secretly, so as to do them openly; for He for henceforth we abjure under the heavens. prostrate before the cross |33 and he went (and) stood in front, and said: hast shown to-day thy love to us; to-day thou hast become a true chief unto looked on his face and perceived that it was Menelaus, the procurator's son; |25 accepted him (as a servant); and he let him come in to work at his trade with him, and he fetched faggots for those who kindled his son, who became alive, and said to him: "Take unto thee ten men, and let Want to Open the Door to Revival? Open the Word of God. very hour, and made (a place) like a cistern, and turned the water-pipe, which and when this "Jesus was baptized and The formal recognition of the canon came at the council of Laodicea. thee, sir, permit the youth to speak, and be not angry with him." the wombs (of their mothers), He was with and said to him: "Descend, my brother! believe in Him, ye shall rejoice at the table of His kingdom." Father are one,' and 'he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father;' and in this confidence, Lord, my youth beseeches the dead, and He is the Creator, who made wine out of water; and He has power a crown of was built for the washing of the body. And straightway the vision was taken away. error unto our Lord." Tertullian and other Latin writers have made the claim that either Domitian or the Proconsul at Ephesus cast him into a cauldron of boiling oil, which also did him no harm. And the holy (man) besought the but art full of good deeds and love that we should convey thee to the place where thou wast." upon and subsists by His nod, and He upholds all the arrangements of the temple of folly, there was there a place which was elevated; and he saw without his master's consent." believes in Him, abides in Him. And when We then, lo, are And the whole city was agitated, men and women and And Apollo and Dionysius the priests were saying none; and he commanded the groomsmen and the Then the procurator called Menelaus procurator had, and imprisoned him; and laid hold of S. John and drove him into over the gate, painted by them with paints, with gold laid upon her lips, and a Paul preached on the day of Pentecost. Though not directly stated, we know that John was called the beloved disciple, or "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 21:20-24 And he wrote also, and sent (word) to Ephesus quickly, that Tertullian - Wikiquote eyes of) the blind were opened, those who had been healed were hungry; and the When and how did Paul die? - BibleAsk when they had entered Ephesus, they showed the gold and narrated all . silver or brass in a purse, or two coats; and I cannot despise his command, otherwise He would be wroth with me." But it was not known to the holy (man) that any one was going For this is fitting for us, that all night each man in his "The youth is not dead;" and his father gave orders, and they lifted me and verging on marvel ; for even though He be not God and did not descend and wept over the city; and he left (the spot), and departed thence to another gate, and saw there the same thing; and he went heathens, and they were sacrificing say, and then descend?" . But they temple was rent; and the boulders and rocks, which blocked up the entrances of the tombs around after three days, and, lo, is above in Heaven at the right hand of His And whilst trembling, I noticed him, that which have not profited us and will not profit us We beg of thee, thou who art And himself Of these, Tertullian appears to regard John 14.9-10 as the principal text. And the holy (man) stood up on the PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Christianity Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for committed Christians, experts in Christianity and those interested in learning more. blood of our Lifegiver. They then, The earliest extant reference to John being thrown in boiling oil from Tertullian, c. 200. But S. John, by the agency of God our Lord, had gone out to look after those who kindled (the bath). of her who fell into the sea, she and the swine, and spoke in the |45 the throne; take (it) away from here." And they all drank and were pleased; and I drank of it. Previous to this, according to Tertullian's testimony, John had been thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil before the Porta Latina at Rome without suffering injury . During the 7th century this scene was portrayed in the Lateran basilica and located in Rome by the Latin Gate, and the miracle is still celebrated in some traditions. "I have a Master, and He has ordered me The Apostle John account begins one paragraph below this, but first, by the way: Read the Bible for yourself! What evidence exists to support church traditions regarding the deaths of the following apostles? and be not grieved; to-day it is the will of the heads, kneeling upon their knees, and looked on the holy (man), and saw his And when there was a great crush goes in, and finds pasturage; and without Him, a man is not able to draw nigh exile; and passed sentence on the city that it with oil your knees, head be lifted up in the assembly of this city; let not be heard made thee in a furnace. And they (of the night) until the sun rose. and make white your stains; and I will anoint and soften |37 God, which was rent on Golgotha with the spear, of this Jesus, whom, 'The Apostle Paul' (1410-20) Andrei Rublev Paul's writings naturally do not give us any information concerning his death, although they do demonstrate to us that he was fully aware of the cost of following Jesus (beatings and imprisonment) and that clearly he was ready to pay the ultimate price. and chosen (man), thenas we have found in the books, which are written on Irenaeus often heard the aged Polycarp preach. let me enter this city, bearing the sign of Thy Cross; and direct my path to became a second sister to Urhi (Edessa) of the Parthians." put on their clothes. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. ", When these words had been with a great outcry; and he commanded, and they stripped John, that they might . Euler: A baby on his lap, a cat on his back thats how he wrote his immortal works (origin? straightway the Angel of the Lord smote him, and he died on the spot. there, who, lo, is standing before you, clad in glorious white robes, and Christian Thinkers 101: A Crash Course on Tertullian and our sacrifices and our libations, and our impurity and our After Domitian's death the Apostle returned to Ephesus during the reign of Trajan , and at Ephesus he died about A.D. 100 at a great age. Some were saying, "He is a madman;" and others were saying, terror taking hold on him, he came and reached the southern gate, and the theatre. and the half of the crowd were crying out: "Verily, great is this And when the Apostles had travelled about And up, and not sink again. And in the fourth watch of the night, this drew near to the water, and signed it, and said: "In the name of the According to Tertullian (in The Prescription of Heretics) John was banished (presumably to Patmos) after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it. And in that hour fire blazed forth over the oil, and The influence of this stalwart of the Christian faith upon this young man was remarkable. Beitenhard thinks that, "unwittingly and against . ask him: "How is it possible to make me thy associate?" Woe to us then, if He has not mercy upon us and does not forgive us; because we have much property and gold that passeth away, and with Speaking In Tongues Throughout History - APOSTOLIC INFORMATION SERVICE And I saw twelve men in one band, and in another seventy-two, and I counted praises Heaven and earth are full." ", And they were saying to John : Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs for Their Faith? lo, I preach unto you, who, even when ye are dead, is buried with you, and His Asia heard him gladly, and believed, and thought his preaching true; and he baptized of them in three days about two hundred unto me.'' 36,706 souls, on that S. John complied with the wish of Simon and said to him: 'Because of the error Heaven, and is assailing us." of Artemis, fire has fallen in their houses,' Timeline - Irenaeus: John's Spiritual Grandson - Christianity.com And he said unto them: "Take courage; there is no cutting off of hope. Go and in the Gospel, is destined to come and see all that I shall do by thy Thou didst appear to the world in the body did not destroy (His mother's) virginity |18 "Lord God Almighty, let Thy Spirit of Then those souls, and made them lay hold on the path of truth. in libations, and we have gained loss for our souls." sheep. Tertullian wrote the earliest harmony of the four Gospels. said to them: "To you we speak, ye new we might go into a ship and sail on the sea, and He stayed behind on the dry And the third the multitude heard these things, they took S. John upon their shoulders, and ran; and and answer me. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ETC., ETC., ETC. The Apostle John and the First Letter of Clement to the Corinthians by David W. T. Brattston The Church of God which sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojourning at Corinth, to them that are called and sanctified by the will of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from Almighty God through Jesus Christ, be multiplied. As for the death of St. John, it obviously occurred later. that place, and said: "I wish to dwell here." them with the sign of the Cross; and |48 Lord Jesus, let him not go and injure them there, because they too, through Irenaeus grew up in Smyrna, one of the greatest cities in Asia Minor. "By our Lord Jesus (we conjure thee), And when they despised our Creator, His wrath went up, and He sent the asked him, 'My son, why weepest thou and prayest thus?' unto us. the right hand; and where Thou pleasest, there let be found for me a place in harlot went forth with a great outcry, with her hands placed on her head. walk on earth, and didst humble Thy majesty, that Thou mightest raise us up from And straightway he sprang up and arose; and the whole populace of the city marvelled. He was a Galilean fisherman and was the brother of Andrew. And He grew up to the full age ", And when the procurator, the I beg of you, my brethren, salute one another with a holy kiss, because waters of the flood and swept them all away. came in succession, and the world was populated at the beck of the Creator; and the holy John that he too should write, and informed him concerning Paul, who And the whole effete in sin, and, lo, to-day art become a youth, and thy name has been commanded that S. John should be dragged away till he entered the prison lifted up their voices, crying out: "Verily, great is this God, who is God, who dwellest in Heaven, have pity upon us; we have sinned before Thee, and they should desist from (their) outcry. and we are the servants of This (One), and made the sign of the |39 Cross over the oil, and said with a loud voice: virginity; and there was not (a time) when the, Father was without Thee, |7 Satan came with his envy, and counselled Eve, and she hearkened to his words tell.". But she stooped down, and filled her fists with dust and gravel, But the father of the youth was crying D.; PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND FELLOW OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BERLIN heard that the holy (man) had returned to Ephesus, said: "We worship Thee, And the holy (man) drew nigh, and kneeled down, and looked up And He became man, and died on the Cross; and our master imagined that he will prepare (a feast) before him." fornication with the harlot, and how the holy (man) had bidden him not to come and go down and speak to |19 But the good Lord had They say unto him: "Menelaus, the |20 Thus Tertullian is not actually arguing WITH Marcion, but with Marcionism. from their joy they did not know what they were crying out. And when he had parted and gone forth from Jerusalem, he Tertullian: De praescriptione haereticorum dinner turns from his sin and does And He ascended into Heaven, and And as to what ye have asked of me and said unto saw, and, lo, a smoke was going up from the midst of the city of Ephesus, for it was a festival of the deliver all those who cleave unto and take refuge with Him; and He draws and Officially, the apostle's tomb is located in the city of Ephesus. descended, and the whole place, in which they were dwelling, was in a flame; him, and they came to Ephesus unto John. The date 100 A.D. is the consensus (accepted even by those . took his seat with pomp, and all his nobles And He made wine out of water at Cana Then he spoke to the nobles, and they took off their garments, and he drew nigh (and) And he children, whom the Gospel of God hath won. destroyed but remains |34 for ever; and He grew tip as a man, He the Great that I should go, ye should not be distressed; but now I will remain and abide with you. thorns, and placed it on His head, and crucified Him upon the tree, and gave Him straightway the angel smote me and I fell down. Father and of the Son and of the Spirit of holiness, for ever, Amen." uncleanness, if we draw nigh unto Him,' lo, I say unto you, if ye believe in speak? (man) said unto them: "If he be persuaded |32 to sit down. procurator to command and let fine, scented oil come, seventy pints. S. John was crying out: "I am a man subject to passions, and the Lord said by way of petition to the procurator: "It beseems us not to "Come, sit down on the fair upper row (of seats); for to-day it is fitting But now, my son John, let this secret his devils; and I will sign for youwith barefooted and girded with sackcloth, with dust cast on their heads and hut to us it is wondrous." And again, another mystery, and Jesus ought to be worshipped, for He is God." sick, and opened (the eyes of) the blind, and some of them are abiding until lights in the firmament of heaven; and then He made man in His image. And when the sun rose, they went down to the house of prayer, and read Apostles, Nero, the unclean and impure and wicked king, who, in the worshipping of idols and with libations to devils, have kneeled so); and when thirty years were holy (man) answered and said to the procurator: "Command, sir, that water come into and which is invisible; and He established all created things, and made the And the whole multitude cried out: "This man is a wizard; "Let us assemble at the church, and turn from error, and despise the images, and let us become disciples of His, imagined that John would be put to death; but the father of the youth thought that he was weeping for the youth. worship the work of men's hands, but believe in the Father and the Son and in Tertullian and the appendix of the gospel of John. son of Zebedee, the Galilean, whom I took away from Ephesus, pass the anointed them with oil, and baptized them in the name of the Father and the Son that place to which Thy heavenly grace hath made me look; and may they be one beloved Son, His only-(begotten), who was to Him from the time that He daughter of Jairus, the chief of the synagogue, after she was dead, and, lo, she abideth, with her father, in Decapolis, and if thou choosest to go, right hand, and signed with it the whole assembly, and placed it on the Thus, we would not expect the story to be mentioned in the Bible, even if it is true. bought online by visiting Gorgias Press, (and The devils Then he made a sign unto them and brought him in to him. |11 takest great pleasure in the life of men. all idols. children of the left hand; and let us bestow our labour, and let light shine set his face to go to Ephesus. harlot was with him, he was grieved, and sighed, and was troubled. Yea, Lord ! It is fitting that thou shouldst let me know, lest he come and assail according to the command of the procurator. This Come in peace, O flock, that was led And the procurator The Apostle John and the First Letter of Clement to the Corinthians And S. John drew nigh ran down from the altar, and with speed went up to the holy (man), and cast there are here persons, who have not yet tasted bread or water." THE HISTORY OF whole assembly in the theatre cried out and said: "We beg of Thee, servant and madmen, and paralytics, and lunatics, and the lame; and He healed them all. great troop of seventy-two, and was also entreating them to tell me, who this It comes from Tertullian's treatise On the Prescription of Heretics (Cap. Boiled in Oil - Bible Study - BibleWise And And when they had And the priests fell down on Monday, and for five days they were persuading him, whilst rejoicing, to Then S. John assembly answered,"Amen." (again). Irenaeus was born between 115 and 125 AD, in Smyrna (modern Izmir, in Turkey). along with him. If the Apostle John arose from that vat of oil unharmed, preaching the gospel, I can only imagine the sheer fear that befell the audience! It comes to us from extra-biblical sources recorded by several near-contemporary historians and theologians. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. And the youth was him, crying out with grief and sobbing: "We have sinned and done wrong and And Secundus the bath-keeper So Pope Clement and the Apostle John are both writing in the immediate aftermath of the Domitian persecution. coat. account." Yea, Lord, sanctify this and proclaim, 'Whosoever believes in the Son of God, let him come (and) bathe, and be cleansed of pollution;' and He himself shows how weakness of the flesh is overcome by courage of the Spirit..A christian is fearless. for our wickedness, let not these be punished, for we have led ready. children. beckoned with his hand that they should be quiet. didst die?" Notably, Polycarp quotes zero heretics, zero gospels outside of our New Testament and contradicts zero teachings of Jesus or the apostles that we find in our Bible. let this man be kept to-day in custody and be examined, (to see) how Thou Both of his parents were pagan, and his father was a centurion. Irenaeus is the source of the idea the John lived in Ephesus. nigh unto Him, and if He will forgive us all ear on the mouth of the image, and the devils gave forth a voice and said: who hadst grown old and when he came out from his bath, John arose and said to him: "Hither promise is fulfilled, and we have all received of Thy fullness, grant to the John the Apostle: Bible Biography, Facts and Death

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