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The Gospel of Perfection is a lost text from the New Testament apocrypha.The text is mentioned in ancient anti-heretical works by the church fathers.It is thought to be a gnostic text of the Ophites, [1] and is believed by some to be the same as the Gospel of Eve, though the words of Saint Epiphanius implied that they were separate Gospels.
The Gospel of Eve is an almost entirely lost text from the New Testament apocrypha, which may be the same as the also lost Gospel of Perfection.. The only known content from it are a few quotations by Epiphanius (Panarion, 26), [1] a church father who criticised how the Borborites used it to justify free love, by practicing coitus interruptus and eating semen as a religious act.
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), made of papyrus, in single quire format (a single quire being a collection of pages placed on top of each other, then folded in half to create a book), measuring 27 x 13 cm (10½" x 5").
The "Magdalen" papyrus (/ ˈ m ɔː d l ɪ n /, MAWD-lin) [1] was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 26:23 and 31) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are catalogued as P. Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland 𝔓 64) from which they acquired ...
Luke is the third gospel, so a panel preceding the Gospel of John might well have completed the Passion and Resurrection story, and two others covered the earlier life of Christ. The scenes around Luke's portrait notably avoid the major episodes in Christ's life such as his Nativity , Baptism and Temptation , probably reserving these scenes for ...
Within many denominations of Christianity, Christian perfection is the theological concept of the process or the event of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection. The ultimate goal of this process is union with God characterized by pure love of God and other people as well as personal holiness or sanctification .
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