Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 19
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Work: Pistis Sophia
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G. R. S. Mead 1896 — retained OCR sections
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It is true that about this time such meu arose as Clement of Alexandria and Origen who voiced much more liberal views and laid the foundations of Christian theology, but they were exceptions to the rule. The Gnostic doctors could not believe that the Jews were the only nation in the past to whom God had revealed himself, and that the scriptures of the nations were to be cast on the dustheap of falsehood and error. And yet they saw that the old order of things had received a rude shock, and that the fierce faith which had been aroused among the people in the personality of Jesus, and …
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- Pistis Sophia; a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's L
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- eng
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- eng
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