Dangers of the Apostolic Age
Dangers of the Apostolic Age
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When we remember the shape which the Gnosticism of Asia Minor took in the hands of Cerinthus, before the end of the first century, there can be little doubt that the angels worshipped by the gnostical Christians at Colossae were so many mediators, interposed between God and matter, to make the creation of so evil a thing the more tolerable in conception. The difficulty wjiich they felt is obvious. How could they conceive that matter, the vehicle and instrument of all pain and lust, came directl...y from the hand of God ? Some distance must be interposed between things so different. Some intermediaries must be provided to make such a descent conceivable. Accordingly there came into men's minds the peculiarly Gnostic idea of emana- tion. As Bishop Lightfoot puts it, "the Divine Being germinates as it were." And this first germination produces THE COLOSSI AN HERESY. 1 33 a second, which in its turn becomes the source of many succeeding ones, the Divine element growing weaker in each successive germination.
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When we remember the shape which the Gnosticism of Asia Minor took in the hands of Cerinthus, before the end of the first century, there can be little doubt that the angels worshipped by the gnostical Christians at Colossae were so many mediators, interposed between God and matter, to make the creation of so evil a thing the more tolerable in conception. The difficulty wjiich they felt is obvious. How could they conceive that matter, the vehicle and instrument of all pain and lust, came directl...y from the hand of God ? Some distance must be interposed between things so different. Some intermediaries must be provided to make such a descent conceivable. Accordingly there came into men's minds the peculiarly Gnostic idea of emana- tion. As Bishop Lightfoot puts it, "the Divine Being germinates as it were." And this first germination produces THE COLOSSI AN HERESY. 1 33 a second, which in its turn becomes the source of many succeeding ones, the Divine element growing weaker in each successive germination.
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