Motif
true embodiment opposed to illusory appearance
true_embodiment_opposed_to_illusory_appearance
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
christian apocrypha
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The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Complete CHAPTER III. / IGNATIUS TO THE SMYRNEANS. / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II.; lines 17991-18117 confidence: medium
The speaker says he has given himself "to death, to the fire, to the sword, to wild beasts," and that he undergoes all in the name of Jesus Christ to suffer with him.
The speaker rejects the idea that Christ's acts were only in show and says denial that Christ was truly made man amounts to denying him and being in death.
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