MOTIVATIONS FOR ENCRATITE PRACTICES IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE Author(s): Andrew R. Guffey
First have of the 3rd century...
2 Clement was included in some early Bible manuscripts (such as the Codex Alexandrinus)
agrapha (unwritten sayings) of Jesus, ‘Salome asked correctly when the Logos spoke of the end, “How long shall death prevail?” Whereupon the Lord very aptly answered, “As long as you women bear children”’ (The Gospel of the Egyptians, frag. 4, trans. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament, 18).
Robert M. Price
Christian texts, right down until the
Reformation (and long after it in the Roman Catholic Church), have been
primarily the product of male celibates, who have not generally been
concerned to articulate the interests and insights of married people.
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