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Most could not tell the difference between Valentinian and orthodox teaching." [47] This was partially because Valentinus used many books that now belong to the Old and New Testaments as a basis for interpretation in his own writing. He based his work on proto-orthodox Christian canon instead of on Gnostic scripture, and his style was similar ...
Valentinian II (Latin: Valentinianus; 371 – 15 May 392) was a Roman emperor in the western part of the Roman Empire between AD 375 and 392. He was at first junior co-ruler of his half-brother, then was sidelined by a usurper, and finally became sole ruler after 388, albeit with limited de facto powers.
A new field in Valentinian studies opened when the Nag Hammadi library was discovered in Egypt in 1945. Among the varied collection of works classified as gnostic was a series of writings which could be associated with Valentinus, particularly the Coptic text called the Gospel of Truth which bears the same title reported by Irenaeus as ...
The ideas expressed deviate from the views of Valentinian gnosticism. [6] The writing is thought [by whom?] to cite or allude to the New Testament Gospels of Matthew and John, as well as 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Hebrews, 1 John and the Book of Revelation. [citation needed] It cites John's Gospel the most often.
The Valentinian dynasty (364–455) was a ruling house during the Late Roman Empire (284–476), in Late antiquity (adj.late antique), [3] including the turbulent years of the late fourth century, and the last dynasty of the western empire. [4]
Yet, Valentinian II still refused to grant requests from pagans to restore the Altar of Victory and the income of the temple priests and Vestal Virgins or to overturn the policies of his predecessor. After Gratian, the emperors Arcadius , Honorius and Theodosius continued to appropriate for the crown the tax revenue collected by the temple ...
An intense blast of cold air has taken up shop in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average and over 200 daily cold records at risk of being broken.
The Tripartite Tractate is a Valentinian Gnostic work. The date is estimated to the second half of the third century [1] or the fourth century but is "most likely based on an earlier Greek version." [2] It is the second-longest text in the Nag Hammadi library. It is the fifth tractate of the first codex, known as the Jung Codex. It is untitled ...