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Epiphanes
(c.315-403)
(On
Early Date of Revelation)
"States Revelation was written under "Claudius [Nero] Caesar." (Epiphanies, Heresies 51:12,)"
(Quoted by Gentry in Before Jerusalem Fell)
(On
The Millennial Reign of Christ)
"There is indeed a millennium mentioned by St. John; but the most, and those pious men, look upon those words as true indeed, but to be taken in a spiritual sense." (Epiphanies, Heresies, 77:26.)
(Pella Flight Tradition)
"The Nazoraean sect exists in Beroea near Coele Syria, in the Decapolis near the region of Pella, and in Bashan in the place called Cocaba, which in Hebrew is called Chochabe. That is where the sect began, when all the disciples were living in Pella after they moved from Jerusalem, since Christ told them to leave Jerusalem and withdraw because it was about to be besieged. For this reason they settled in Peraea and there, as I said, they lived. This is where the Nazoraean sect began." (Panarion 29:7:7-8)
"Their sect began after the capture of Jerusalem. For when all those who believed in Christ settled at that time for the most part in Peraea, in a city called Pella belonging to the Decapolis mentioned in the gospel, which is next to Batanaea and the land of Bashan, then they moved there and stayed.." (Panarion 30:2:7)
"For when the city was about to be captured and sacked by the Romans, all the disciples were warned beforehand by an angel to remove from the city, doomed as it was to utter destruction. On migrating from it they settled at Pella, the town already indicated, across the Jordan. It is said to belong to Decapolis " (On Weights and Measures 15)
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
Isaac Newton
"Epiphanius represents the Gospel of John as written in the time of
Domitian, and the Apocalypse even before that of Nero."
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