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The Apocalypse

From who and when the apocalypse has been written? Thing expresses the apocalypse?

According to the Church, “the apocalypse, from the Greek “Revelation”, you/he/she has been written by the disciple Giovanni, the same author of the IV Gospel, in the years 94-95 in the island of Patmos (Greece) during the persecutions against the Christians operated by the emperor Domiziano. It expresses, through the revelation from an angel to Giovanni the evangelist, the certainty of the final victory of Christ on the powers of the evil”. (Bible and. C.E.I.)
Leaving every comment on the unauthorized and factious meaning that the Church attributes to this book, that is not our intention to enter discussions fideistiche, we pass to the examination of this book exclusively considering that presuppositions that can be essays in a secular trial, what those dependent exclusively from the reason and from a controllable historical documentation.

The book of the apocalypse, composed of 22 chapters, have been written in reality in two editions, the first one constituted by 18 chapters, gone out in 68 during the 70 war and the second, had been representing for the first three chapter and from the last one, that was assistant in 95 from the spiritualists. As it is logical that pits, while the first 18, written by the revolutionary ones, I am the expression of the program warlike Zealot founded on the hate and the revenge against Rome and his/her allies, the seconds four, written by the essenis spiritualists, they represent the whole pacifism of which the people was served boasters after the division as the revolutionary tide.
The apocalypse, always bewared of the Church with distrust for his/her concepts esseno-Zealots, so much to be included only in the canonical texts in the You century, it is of the books what shows her/it not historical existence of Jesus more than every other.
In both the editions, both in that of 68 as in that of 95, all is ignored some life of Christ and his/her death. The Messiah of the apocalypse still resides in sky, near the throne of God, and when in one chapter of his (XII) he speaks of his/her birth him you/he/she makes him conceive from the constellation of the Virgo to the origin of the times and, always remaining in the world of the astrology, the Messiah of the apocalypse is represented in sky under the form of the Aries, first sign of the zodiac that the destinies of the world command, to which you/he/she is symbolically associated the biblical Easter lamb of the exodus. comes down her of the Messiah, that will realize him, according to the visions brought by the book of the Maccabeis, in the person of a victorious commander on a white horse to the sound of trumpets, announced as neighbor, you/he/she doesn't have nothing to do with the Passion of Christ you/he/she declares happened in 33: away from to die in cross, he will exterminate the enemies to sit on a throne that will last thousand years. The Church tries to give to this image of the thousand years, as you/he/she is told by the C.E.I the introductory footstep above brought, the symbolic value of a message of hope in the final victory of the Christ on the powers of the evil, but all it takes is reading well the apocalypse to make I count us that the destruction in Rome, symbol of the corruption, is announced as a real fact and not as a prophecy.
“The Messiah attended in the apocalypse is the “the man's Child” of the vision of Daniel. Away from to die in cross, he is he who it will establish the Jewish empire on the ruins in Rome that are not procrastinated to an epoch distant and future, but anticipated so imminent from every other interpretation to make absurd. And the author, that this message has taken back in 95, doesn't contradict at all attends him expressed by the 68 edition making to finish the work on this promise from the Messiah,: << You. I will come soon >>, to which the author answering: << you Come, Mr., you come! >>, it shows to ignore that he has already come under another form”. (Guy Fau. op. cit. pag. 60).

As he/she is seen, the apocalypse is not that a further test confermante that in the first century, at least up to 95, away from every form of incarnation, the Christ is still represented in the form of dreams and of visions.
<< The apocalypse is not the expression of a solo book, but of different, of many. Not nevertheless unions of various fragments, as for addition of different books as Enoch, but rather of an alone book, formed by different stratifications as those of various civilizations when you are dug to the fund of an ancient city. After a first rielaborazione of a Jewish writer of Apocalypses, and after other additions, it had his/her definitive version to work of Giovanni, the Christian Jew, and after these historical seasons the book was still rehandled and correct, with additions and ancellature, from publishers that they wanted that the work became Christian.
We stay perplexed however, since if Giovanni finished AD his/her Apocalypse in 96, you/he/she is strange indeed that him nothing knew about the legend of Jesus, that nothing had assimilated some spirit of the Gospel all preceding moments to his/her text. Strange figure, this Giovanni of Patmos, whoever he was >>. (D. H. Lawrens - Apocalypse - Tasc. Newton, pag. 38).
... and still:
<< The apocalypse is a work of war, an ardent call of the Jews against the detested Roman occupant. The descent of the Messiah, announced as neighbor, it doesn't have nothing to do with a passion already lived: away from to die in cross, the winning Savior is seen how a sterminatore of enemies before can sit on his/her thousand year-old terrestrial kingdom. You looks for today of it stuffed to admit that the images are symbolic, but the destruction in Rome, remembering that of Babylon, as reality you/he/she is announced. After the description of the great massacre, the work, finishing with the promise that the Savior does to come soon, you/he/she excludes in the most categorical way that him, the Christ, has come already. The whole apocalypse ignores some Christianity; the lamb has not put to death under Husked but you/he/she is immolated “from the creation of the world” (XIII-8) according to a rite of Jewish permanent value and not for a historical fact. We are at the end of the second halves the first century and Christ, away from every historical reference, you/he/she is sustained in the apocalypse, as in the Actions of the Apostles, exclusively from visions >>. (Guy Fau. op. cit. pag. 60).
The silence of the apocalypse on every historical reference of the life of Christ, the most absolute ignorance from the author on Husked, Caifa, the miracles and that earthquakes that shook the earth to its death, are the clearest demonstration that all of this that has been on writing on Jesus is not but a fable, for junta, also ache told.
As it regards then the 95 dating given from the Church to the whole apocalypse, we are of forehead to another historical forgery according to you/he/she has incontestably shown as Engels confirming the exit of the first edition a years 68-69.
But before passing to the demonstration of Engels, it is to make well a breve I recapitulate some facts that precedettero his/her editing.
The death of Nerone, happened for suicide in the year 68, it threw Rome in a state of such anarchy and disorder to force the busy legions in the war against the revolutionary ones to retire himself/herself/themselves in Syria leaving free field to the army Jewish esseno-Zealot.
The sure Jews to be reached to the final victory, already being seen himself/herself/itself masters of the empire and therefore of the world, they discharge in the book all of their grudge against Rome, Babylon of the corruption, and against all the enemies of God announcing a program of hate of revenge and of slaughters.
To Nerone succedette Galba, but under his/her uncertain kingdom of the be-seven month-old duration between the June of 68 and the January of 69, even the situation of breakup of the institution of the State worsened for a voice that started to circular second which was given for some that Nerone, declared suicidal, it was not dead as he believed but how same preparing an army to regain the throne.

<< In effects, after the installation of Galba to the throne in Rome, well soon it made his/her appearance a character that affirmed to be Nerone and that for a certain time he/she fought for the power but you/he/she was defeated >>. (Josif Kryvelev. The Apoalisse. 8)
Made this brief premise, we now read the footstep from which Engels has drawn the exact date in which the apocalypse was written: “The angel transported me in spirit in the desert (you/he/she is the author that he speaks following his/her vision). Là I saw a woman sat above a scarlet beast, covered with blasphemous names with seven heads and ten horns. The woman was mantled of purple and of scarlet, ornate of gold and of precious stones and of pearls, you/he/she held in hand a gold cup, full of the abominations and of the garbage of his/her prostitution. On the forehead you/he/she had written a mysterious name: << Babylon the great one, the mother of the prostitutes and the abominations of the earth >>. Á. to see taken her/it from great amazement. But the angel told me: because you marvel you? I will explain you the mystery of the woman and the beast that the door, with seven heads and ten horns. The beast that you have seen, but that it doesn't exist anymore it will climb from the abyss but to go to perdition. And the inhabitants of the earth will surprise to see that the beast that was not and you/he/she is not anymore, will reappear. The seven heads are the seven necks on which the woman is sat and they is also the seven kings. The first five are fallen (August, Tiberio, Caligola, Claudio, Nerone), it still stays from there one in life (Galba), the other has not come yet and when you/he/she will have come, it will have to remain for little.
When the beast that was and it is not anymore (continuous to explain the angel), the king that will have to come even if it shows up as eighth the seventh one he/she remains, however but it goes to perdition.”
Because the successor of Galba could appear as eighth even if in reality you/he/she is the seventh one? Because Nerone, taking back as the throne according to was said, it appears as a double figure representing an emperor already enumerated among those fallen.
What Nerone is the seventh head it confirms him/it the same author of the apocalypse when, reporting himself/herself/itself to his/her presumed suicide, so he/she writes: << One of the seven heads seemed stricken to death, but its deadly sore was recovered >>. (Ap.13-3).
A further test confermante that the seventh emperor, what will happen to Galba, is that is Nerone it still comes us from the same author of the apocalypse when it tells us that its name corresponds to the number 666: << Here wisdom is. Who has intelligence you calculate the number of the beast: it represents a name of man. it is such figure it is seicentosessantasei >> (Ap. 13-18).
The interpretation of this number, drawn by Ferdinand Bernari, teacher Berliner whose lessons were followed by Engels, according to the Jewish numerical simbologia it exactly corresponds to “Nerone Imperatore”. The calculation performed by Ferdinand Bernari finds confirmation in the same Ireneo, Father of the Church, that in the book “Against the Heresies” it points out the emperor Nerone with the number 616. Because this difference? For the simple fact what Ireneo made the calculation on the text written in Latin, where the name Nerone, written in Greek Neron, becomes Black. The letter N falling, that corresponds to 50 in the Jewish simbologia, the account and beautiful that done: 666-50 = 616.

Therefore, if the apocalypse has been written while Galba reigned, that is in the inclusive period among the fifth emperor that had been Nerone died suicidal and the seventh emperor, anticipated in the person of the same Nerone redivivo, and knowing that Galba has reigned from June of 68 to January of 69, as a result the apocalypse cannot have been written who in this period and not in 95 as it sustains the Church, and not even to have been compiled by Giovanni the evangelist in the island of Patmos but from the revolutionary ones in the Judea during the 70 war.
What the Jews were sure of the victory on the Romans you/he/she is confirmed us by Eleazaro when in the discourse of Masada, reporting himself/herself/itself to the 70 defeat, it defines her/it one “defeated unexpected”. (Jewish War. cap.8).
The Church, to justify 95 as given by her assigned to the apocalypse, so it comments the footstep from which Engels has drawn his/her conclusion: << Seven king, reigns that is him of August, Tiberio, Caligola, Nerone and Domiziano, that you/he/she still existed to the time of Giovanni. The little time is the time of the persecution and the seventh empire it is the hostile dominion to the kingdom of God, identified with the fair >>. (Note to pag 7 of the Ap. and. CEI).
Practically, also to justify 95 as year when the whole apocalypse was written, ignoring him emperors Galba, Urinal and Tito, the Church it makes to make a flight to the head of the beast number 5 of well 25 years to put her/it on the shoulders of Domiziano that you/he/she is considered as the sixth emperor. And the seventh head? The seventh head gets her/it transforming the redivivo Nerone in “a hostile Empire to the kingdom of God” that incoherently you/he/she is identified with the whole beast.
Because the Church insists to attribute the 95 date to the apocalypse? The answer is simple: if it recognized that you/he/she has been written in 68, the whole second part regarding Jesus, that is the 4 assistant chapters, a forgery would result for too evidently the existing anachronism among the express concepts in the “Regard in the seven churches” in the caps. 1 -2 -3, what that of the Nicolaidis, that didn't exist in 68 yet. For which, not could backdate the 95 apocalypse to 68, posdata it has him all to 95.
But could thing change in what after all, it concerns the historical existence of Jesus even if had the apocalypse been written all in 95, from the moment that it excludes in his whole in the most categorical way every reference to one terrestrial life of his?
The apocalypse is a work of war that repeats in the way most faithful the program of extermination in Rome exposed by the esseno-Zealots in the “Roll of the War” found again in the excavations of Qumran in 1947. It ignores in the way most absolute all of this that has been attributed to Christ. It ignores Husked, the crucifixion, the miracles, the resurrezione, the apostles. It, disowning all the other sacred books that refer to the Christianity, over that it has to show his/her nature Jew-essena, confirmation that the Gospel, the Actions of the apostles and the letters that the Church affirms to be her contemporary, are not been written in the first century but in dates, as we will see, very more late.
The Messiah of the apocalypse is a commander sterminatore of enemies that will have to establish a Jewish kingdom that will last thousand years. Distant from every symbolic form attributed her from the Church what announcer of a victory of Christ on the powers of the evil procrastinated at the end of the times, the apocalypse speaks to the clearest way of the destruction of the enemies of God in a way so neighbor and reality to consider her/it as if you/he/she had already completed.
How can you/he/she be pretended that the apocalypse sustains the historical existence of Jesus when, soliciting its descent of it from the sky, does it deny her/it in the most absolute way? (Ap. 22,10).
The apocalypse is a book of war, an ardent appeal to the struggle against the Roman occupant, a book of hate and revenge that excludes every meaning of love and peace that is wanted to attribute to the ethic preached by Christ.
The Messiah attended in the apocalypse is the “the man's Child” of Daniel. Extraneous to every death of cross, he is destined to establish the Jewish empire on the ruins in Rome.

Making a comparison among the two works that the Church attributes Giovanni to the apostle, we cannot draw that a further confirmation of the historical nonexistence of Jesus from the moment that the one excludes the other if we consider that in the apocalypse the Christ still has to come down while in the IV Gospel is sustained incarnate, been born by a terrestrial woman that doesn't have nothing to do with the constellation of the Virgo.
If to this point me it made him observe, as you/he/she is already happened, that the apocalypse confirms the existence of Jesus in the first century because it brings its name three times (you/they have counted her), well I am not able whether to answer that even if the times had been fifty or one hundred, apart the fact that nothing could change in front of the brought tests, the name of Jesus was largely used by the Essentis in the biblical meaning of Jeosua (Giosué) that it means “he who salute “that it clearly refers to the “Teacher of Justice” attended by the Essenis.
In fact Jesus's name we find him/it in his/her meaning of humanization that has given him Mother Church, for the first time in the “Talked Truthful “written by Celso in 180 through the confutation that of it ago Origene bringing the footstep of it: << The one to which you have given the name of Jesus Cristo in reality was not but the head of a gang of brigands whose miracles that attribute him they were not that demonstrations operated according to the magic and the esoteric makeups. Truth is that all these claimed facts are not that of the myths without that yourselves have manufactured therefore to succeed in giving a shade of credibility to your lies. It is known to everybody that what has written it is the result of continuous rehashes following the criticisms that were brought >>. (Celso. Talked Truthful).
In this diatribe between Celso and Origene, that that interests still, besides the accusation moved against the Christians to have given the name of Jesus to the head of a proclamations Brigands, it is the fact that Origene in it didn't defend the historical existence of Jesus but only the fact that he was associated to a head of brigands, from the moment that him what gnostic it sustained only it in his/her realization of preacher that had developed his/her mission picking only up some man the appearances, from how much you/he/she is confirmed us by the Patriarch Fozio that gives us for some that S.Clemente and his/her disciple Origenes died in 254, deny the incarnation of Christ and accordingly his/her historical figure of man: << The Patriarch Fozio, lived in the IX century (827 - 97), when by now the Church it had his/her dogmas and him you/he/she could not follow that liberty of study and expression that we find in the books of Christian matrix of the II and III century anymore, speaking of the book of the disputes of S. Clemente (160-220), he/she affirms that s. Clemete had sustained that the Logos was never embodied (Pag. 286, in Ganeval, cap. II and III); and speaking of the four books on the “Principles” of Origene, it makes us know that Origene spoke of the “Cresto” - as him he/she called him/it - according to the fable and that as for the Savior's incarnation, him opinava that the same spirit (puff) that you/he/she had animated him/it it was the same that was in Mosè the other prophets and apostles,; whence to well reason, Fozio of the IX century, what defender of the incarnation according to the dogmas by now established and imposed, it scandalizes declaring that Origene wrote a lot of swearwords >> (Boxwoods. op. cit.pag. 39 - from Ganeval. capp.II and III).
To this point it doesn't stay us whether to add other examples similar to the precedent to show how much the Christianity that the Church affirms to be constituted him in the thirties, that is after the death of Christ, in reality he/she still groped at the end of the II and for everything that you/they deny in the most categorical way the incarnation of Christ:
1) S. Giustino martyr in 160, to contradict Celso that affirmed the existence of Jesus but only as head brigand, wrote: << if Jesus was born, and if you/he/she was born in some place, he is completely unknown however >> (Dialogue with Trifone - Dide. “The End of the Religions” - pag.171).
3) Papia, bishop of Gerapoli, author of an exegesis on the mottos of the Lord, lived in the full one of the II century, missing of historical references on the life of Jesus, you/he/she sustains the existence of it quoting the footsteps of a Gospel spiritualist esseno-Egyptian (therapist).
4) S. Ireneo, bishop of Lione from 177, affirms that the Christian God is neither man nor woman.
5) S. Giustino, Christian writer, author of two apologies of the Christianity, dead to Rome in 165, speaking of Christ affirms that it is an emanation of God that happens as the projection of the rays of the sun. (Gnostic Concetto that excludes every relationship between the divinity and the subject).
6) << all the seven existing gnostics in the centuries The, II and III., what the Marcionitis, the Valentinianis, the Basilidianis, the Nicolaidis and so many other deny the incarnation of Jesus affirming, according to as you/he/she has said S. Epifane, that he is the Gold reconstruction, the child of the Egyptian Trinità, become then Serapide.
To these seven, quoted by Ganeval, which denied that the Verb was made meat, you/he/she must be added and especially signalled that of the Docetis, negatori of the historicity of Christ, to disprove which, according to El Salvador (Jesus Cristo and its doctrine - lib.II, cap.II), the fourth Gospel adds the hit of lance that makes to go out water and blood of the body of Christ to try its human nature to the Passion how much they denied her/it. Conclusive for the negation of the umanizzazzione of Jesus it is the fact that the docetis are contemporary of the apostles, to say of S. Girolamo >> (Boxwoods. Jesus Cristo has never existed. And. The Torch. pag.40).
The historical figure of Christ that everybody, practically included the Saints and the Christian esegetis they refused to recognize, if you/he/she has been recognized such you/he/she has not depended on a documentation equipped of tests but on the contrary from an imposition of falsehood and imitations sustained by the most atrocious tortures and by the fire.
<< If the Jesus of the Christians were really existed, you/he/she would not have been needed to falsify the history to try him/it >>. (Boxwoods, lawyer. op. cit. pag.16).

Investigation of Domiziano.
According to what it says S. Eusebio, the emperor Domiziano (81-96), having felt to speak of the Christians, you/he/she would have made to come to Rome from Palestine of the relatives of the Lord, descending of the stock of David, to question them on the Christ of which you/he/she had felt to speak. The people, ignoring apostles, passion and death, they answered him that “the kingdom of Christ not being of this world and of this earth, but celestial and angelic, you/he/she would be realized at the end of the times.”
Domiziano, always according to S.Eusebio, reassured by the pacifism that you/they had shown these good people, it postponed them in the Judea (wishing him a good trip. o.p.).
This fact than for if already deprived of logic for the simple motive that Domiziano if you/he/she had wanted to inquire himself/herself/themselves on the Christ and on his/her followers you/he/she would have had systems more imperial than that to summon some Jews to Rome, as it for example did after him Adriano that asked information to Plinio the Young attorney of the Bitinia, it is not that another example of the attempts served as the Church to show the historical existence of the Christians in the first century through the falsification of the documents. If there had been really of the Christians in Rome, with so much of bishops successors of S. Pietro (dead to Rome in 63), as S. Anacleto (76-88) and S. Clemente (88-97), because Domiziano would have had to make to come some Christians from Palestine to inform himself/herself/themselves about their religion? How can the Church justify the contradiction among a Domiziano that questions some Christians that it doesn't know and that for junta they result entirely him after the questioning of the pacific followers of a spiritual religion, and a Domiziano that at the same time you/he/she is introduced us as a persecutore of the same ones? How would it be able Domiziano (51-96) to ignore the Christians when in 68 they were accused of the fire in Rome? It is clear that this whole existing confusion in the ecclesiastical history depends on the necessity that the Church has had for being able him to replace with that essenis pacifists that sustained the Christ of an angelic and celestial kingdom.

Letter to the Hebrews and letter of Plinio the Young one

All, included by now the same Church, they recognize that the Letter to the Hebrews has not been written by Paul of Tarsus. The author is discussed among those people that attribute him to the Alexandrine school (Therapists) and those that defend the thesis of Tertulliano according to which to write would have been her/it a certain contemporary Barnaba of Paul of Tarsus.
Except some apparent interpolation openly, even if one are considered of the most ancient documents because in it they are made allusions to the ceremonies celebrated in the Temple in Jerusalem that will be destroyed from Tito in 70, in it there is not any reference to a terrestrial life of Jesus. The Christ of the Letter to the Hebrews is an abstract character assimilated to Melchisedec, character of the genesis that is declared “without father, without mother, without genealogy and that you/he/she has not had neither principle, neither end.”
The Christ of the Letter to the Hebrews is a to be supernatural and not a man that lives on the earth.
<< The Letter to the Hebrews, doesn't absolutely say anything of the relatives of Christ, of its brothers, of its disciples, of the holy women, nothing of its relationships with the people, the fariseis, the Romans; Nothing of his/her arrest, of his/her trial and of his/her crucifixion. The Christ is not set in a sanctuary built by the men, but in the sky and you/he/she has replaced his/her blood with that of the sacrificed animals. The cross is named only in two insertions (6-4/8, 12-162) but evidently additions in a second time as it results from the contradiction that they expresses toward the rest of the text. In conclusion, inspiring himself/herself/itself it to a celestial Christ essentially, the letter to the Hebrews is him to consider a document as the apocalypse, against every historicity of the life of Jesus >> (J.K. Watson - Letter to the Hebrews - notebook of the Circle Renan, 4° trims. 1965).

Letter of Plinio the Young one to the emperor Traiano.
Among the various documents that the Church brings as it tries for disproving those people whom sustain that Christians didn't exist before 150, there is a letter that Plinio the Youth he/she wrote in 110, what Roman attorney in Bitinia, to the emperor Traiano to ask him as it had to behave him toward the followers of one certain “superstition” that you/they were called Christians.
<< It is for me duty, or Mr., to put again in your opinion all the matters regarding which am uncertain. Who, in fact, better of you you/he/she can direct my hesitancy or to instruct my incompetence? I have never taken part to inquiries to load of the Christians; insofar I don't know up to that point is accustomed to punish them or to investigate them. I have a great deal also doubted if I/you/he/she am had to keep in mind of their age; if also the little boys have to be essays as the men in their full vigor; if it is had to grant grace following the repentance, or if to he who is Christian however you don't benefit at all the possession stopped being him/it; if is also goes punished exempted by guilts, or it is had to consider only a guilt the possession this name.
In the meantime, with those people who were delivered me what Christians, have followed this procedure: if after having asked them if they were Christian they confessed to be him/it, I questioned them a second time and a third time threatening them of capital punishment. Those that persevered I have sent them to death holding to have to their pertinacia and their stubborn stubbornness to be punished. There were other affections of it from the same folly, for which, since they were city Romans, I ordered that you/they were postponed in Rome. Well soon, since they grew the incriminations, as it happens to treating such matters, different cases happened ahead me.
You/he/she was put an anonymous book that contained different names circulating.
Those people who denied to be Christian, or to be is him/it, I held to owe to release them, when, after having repeated how much I formulated, they invoked the gods and they revered your image, that I had made to bring together to this purpose other simulacri of the numis, and when they cursed against Christ, thing that is said both impossible to get him from those people who are really Christian. Others, reported by an informer, they said to be Christian, but later they denied immediately it; you/they had been him/it, but you/they had stopped being him/it, who from three years, who from many years before, some even from twenty years. Also all the people revered your image and the simulacris of the gods and they cursed Christ. They affirmed besides that all of their guilt or error it consisted in the usual being to reunite himself/herself/themselves before the dawn and to tune up a hymn to alternate choirs to Christ as if it were a god (almost god) and to force him with oath not to perpetrate some crime, not to commit thefts, neither frauds, neither adulterers, to the word not to miss dates and not to refuse the restitution of deposit, if you/they had been in demand of it. Fact this they had the custom to retire himself/herself/themselves and to again reunite then himself/herself/themselves to take the food, to every common and innocent way, thing that you/they stopped doing after my edict with which, according to your dispositions, I had prohibited the existence of associations. For this I still held more necessary than to question two handmaids that ministres were said, to know what fund of truth there was, also resorting to the torture. I have not found out null'altro of a foolish and unrestrained superstition.
Therefore, postponed the inquiry, I have hastened to ask your opinion. It seemed me in fact thing worthy of consultation, above all for the number of those people that I/you/they have involved in this threat; a lot of people of every age, social class and of both sexes, are dragged, and still they will be him/it in this danger. Not only the city, but also the suburbs and the countries are pervaded by the contagion of this superstition; I believe however that can still be stopped and course in the normalcy >>. (Epistle X, 96, 1-9).
Even if there would be no more need of further comments to show that the Christians to which it refers Plinio the Youth were the Essenis of which you/they speak Joseph Flavio, Seam and the documents of Qumran (Book of the Rules), we make to observe however, as further confirmations, the followings footsteps contained in the letter:
1) women's presence in the religious charges as ministre that, inadmissible in a Christian environment for the interdiction to the celebration of the cults that the Church always has reserved to the female sex, that still came preserved near the communities Jew-essene for that respect that you/they brought to the laws of their fathers: << When a man or a woman it will make special vow, the vote of nazireato to devote himself/herself/themselves to the Lord, will abstain him from the wine and from the intoxicating drinks... >>. (Nm. 6 -
2) << the expression according to which the people beg their Christ “as if it were a god”, it is not able whether to refer to the Logos of Seam that an is considered to be intermediary between god and the men, inferior to God, because created, but occupying in the creation a place of prominence that, investing him/it of some divine attributes, it makes him/it a “almost god” >>. (Guy Fau. pag. 235).
3) the name of Christians with which this sect of dolts was pointed out and of unrestrained if you/they were not given him theirs which followers of Christ, but on the contrary you/he/she had been attributed him from others and with a sense dispregiativo as it sustains Ambrogio Donini in “History of the Cristainesimo” Edt. Teti - pag. 29: << The name of Christians was born in an environment not palestinese and you/he/she was used in sense of ironic contempt (him “greasy”, him “impomatati”) to distinguish the Hebrews of the Synagogue (orthodox) from the new converts, considered strange people, from the long hair, some as our beatniks >>.
4) << Christians' appellative combined to a sect of superstition, given by Plinio the Young one to the communities of the Bitinia, we already find him/it in Tacit when it refers to their expulsions happened under August and under Tiberio already many years before the presumed death of Jesus Cristo.
It is not a game of words the to say that the Christianity esistette in the form of superstition Jewish-Christian before Jesus was born and the Church did really this name replacing himself/herself/itself with the essenis >>. (E. Bossi. Jesus Cristo has never existed. Pag. 36).
Another testimony historical demonstrator that the Christians of Mother Church they didn't exist in the first halves the II century yet, it comes us from the same emperor Adriano, which gone to Alexandria the year 131, it said that “the God of the Christians was Serapide and that the devotees of Serapide were those that were said “the Christians' bishops”. (Boxwoods. op.cit. pag.40).
* Bishop, from the Greek “epuscopus” (head of religious community), you/he/she is passed only in the hierarchy ecclesiastical Christian after his/her constitution, that is in the second halves the II century, so much that the first bishop of Rome, recognized by the history, you/he/she has been Eleuterio of Nicopoli of the Epiro (175-189).

 

 

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