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Interpretation concerning the ages made by God, all the ages for the accomplishment [of all the events, past] and future. Before ever He created them, He determined the works of … age by age. And it was engraved on [heavenly] tablets… the ages of their domination. This is the order of the cre[ation of man from Noah to Abraham, until he begot Isaac; ten [unknown period].
Dead Sea scroll 4Q180
In you shall the temple of God be glorified, and a man shall proceed from my seed, like unto the sun of righteousness, who shall be manifested to the nations in meekness, and all the nations shall be in His faith. Through Him shall the Gentiles know the Lord.
-Testament of Benjamin 11:2-3
Possible prophecy about Saul/Paul the Benjamite.
For if we still go on observing Judaism, we admit we never received grace… Get rid, then, of the bad yeast — it has grown stale and sour — and be changed into new yeast, that is, into Jesus Christ. Be salted in him, so that none of you go bad, for your smell will give you away. It is monstrous to talk Jesus Christ and to live like a Jew. For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism in Christianity.
-Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, 8:1, 10:2
On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed
-Codex Justinianus lib. 3, tit. 12, 3 [331 AD]
Why Did We Start All This?
Why go through all this? Doesn’t the Old Testament Tanakh & New Testament give you everything you need to be saved?
Similarly, the men of the generation of the flood proclaimed: “Come, let us build us a city, so that He may descend to earth and we may ascend to heaven. But if He should not descend, then let us wage war against Him.
-Midrash Tanchuma Noach18:13 on Tower of Bab-El
Rather, Rabbi Yirmeya bar Elazar says: They divided into three factions; one said: Let us ascend to the top of the tower and dwell there. And one said: Let us ascend to the top of the tower and engage in idol worship. And one said: Let us ascend to the top of the tower and wage war.
-Sanhedrin 109a on the Tower of Bab-El
Moses was loved by the masses, and being deemed worthy of divine honor by the priests, he was called Hermes because of his ability to interpret the sacred writings.
-Eusebius’s Praeparatio Evangelica (Book 9, Chapter 27) reporting to quote Artapanus of Alexandria 250 BC
And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.
-Didache Chapter 7