See also:HEGESIPPUS (fl. A.D. 150-180)
, See also:early See also:Christian writer, was of Palestinian origin, and lived under the Emperors See also:Antoninus See also:Pius, See also:Marcus Aurelius and See also:Commodus
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Like See also:Aristo of See also:Pella he belonged to that See also:group of Judaistic Christians which, while keeping the See also:law themselves, did not See also:attempt to impose on others the requirements of See also:circumcision and See also:Sabbath observance
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He was the author of a See also:treatise (irtroµvilµara) in five books dealing with such subjects as Christian literature, the unity of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:doctrine, paganism, See also:heresy and Jewish See also:Christianity, fragments of which are found in See also:Eusebius, who obtained much of his See also:information concerning early Palestinian church See also:history and See also:chronology from this source
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See also:Hegesippus was also a See also:great traveller, and like many other leadersof his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time came to See also:Rome (having visited See also:Corinth on the way) about the See also:middle of the znd See also:century
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His journeyings impressed him with the See also:idea that the continuity of the church in the cities he visited was a See also:guarantee of its fidelity to apostolic orthodoxy: " in each See also:succession and in every See also:city, the doctrine is in accordance with that which the Law and the Prophets and the See also:Lord [i.e the Old Testament and the evangelical tradition] proclaim." To illustrate this See also:opinion he See also:drew up a See also:list of the See also:Roman bishops
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Hegesippus is thus a significant figure both for the type of Christianity taught in the circle to which he belonged, and as accentuating the point of view which the church began to assume in the presence of a developing See also:gnosticism
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