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	Samosata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samosata was also the birthplace of Paul of Samosata, the third leader of the Elkasites, an order of Essene Gnostics, who lived in the mid 3rd century CE.
		In the Christian martyrology, seven Christian martyrs were crucified in 297 in Samosata for refusing to perform a pagan rite in celebration of the victory of Maximian over the Persians: Abibus, Hipparchus, James, Lollian, Paragnus, Philotheus, and Romanus.
		It was at Samosata that Julian had ships made in his expedition against Sapor, and it was a natural crossing-place in the struggle between Heraclius and Chosroes in the 7th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samosata (311 words)

	paul of samosata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Paul of Samosata, patriarch of Antioch (260-272), was, if we may credit the encyclical letter of his ecclesiastical opponents preserved in Eusebius's History, bk.
		He was certainly born farther east at Samosata, and may have owed his promotion in the Church to Zenobia, queen of Palmyra.
		The real gravamen against Paul seems to have been that he clung to a Christology which was become archaic and had in Rome and Alexandria already fallen into the background.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /paul_of_samosata.html (381 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Paul of Samosata
		Paul held the civil office of Procurator ducenarius, and was protected by Zenobia, the famous Queen of Palmyra.
		The letter accuses Paul of acquiring great wealth by illicit means, of showing haughtiness and worldliness, of having set up for himself a lofty pulpit in the church, and of insulting those who did not applaud him and wave their handkerchiefs, and so forth.
		The Council of Nicæa declared the baptism conferred by the Paulianists to be invalid.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11589a.htm (986 words)

	Paul of Samosata on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Paul enounced a dynamic monarchianism, denying the three Persons of the Trinity.
		Paul was repeatedly challenged and finally excommunicated (269), but he continued to function as bishop under Zenobia's protection until the Romans took Palmyra (272).
		Arius may have been his pupil and his influence on Nestorius was considerable, but his connection with the Paulicians is disputed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PaulS1amo.asp (334 words)

	Bogomils - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		This name was derived from their respect for the apostle Paul, rather than from their third leader, the Armenian Paul, as Photius and affirm.
		Karp Strigolnik, who in the 14th century preached the doctrine in Novgorod, explained that St Paul had taught that simpleminded men should instruct one another; therefore they elected their "teachers" from among themselves to be their spiritual guides, and had no special priests.
		Regarding himself as called to restore the pure Christianity of Paul, he adopted the name Silvanus, one of Paul's disciples, and about the year 660 founded his first congregation at in Armenia.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Bogomils (2383 words)

	Chapter Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman ...
		The story of Paul of Samosata, who filled the metropolitan see of Antioch, while the East was in the hands of Odenathus and Zenobia, may serve to illustrate the condition and character of the times.
		For Paul indulged himself very freely in the pleasures of the table, and he had received into the episcopal palace two young and beautiful women as the constant companions of his leisure moments.
		Notwithstanding these scandalous vices, if Paul of Samosata had preserved the purity of the orthodox faith, his reign over the capital of Syria would have ended only with his life; and had a seasonable persecution intervened, an effort of courage might perhaps have placed him in the rank of saints and martyrs.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25658/18.html (663 words)

	SAMOSATA - LoveToKnow Article on SAMOSATA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		When the water is high enough it is possible to descend in a kelek in one day to Birejil~.
		the dynasty of Iranian origin which ruled at Samosata, described by Strabo (l.c.) as a fortified city in a very fertile if not extensive district, allied itself with the Seleucids, and bore the dynastic name of Antiochus.
		It was at Samosata that Julian had ships made in his expedition against Sapor, and it was a natural crossing-place in the struggle between.
	45.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAMOSATA.htm (429 words)

	Paul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Paul I - Paul I, 1754–1801, czar of Russia (1796–1801), son and successor of Catherine II.
		Paul Doumer - Doumer, Paul, 1857–1932, president of the French republic (1931–32).
		Saint Paul of the Cross - Paul of the Cross, Saint, 1694–1775, Italian, religious founder of the Passionists.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0837900.html (291 words)

	LUCIAN ( Martyr ) - LoveToKnow Article on LUCIAN ( Martyr ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Settling at Antioch when Malchion was master of the Greek school he became a presbyter, and, while supporting himself by his skil as a rapid writer, became celebrated as a teacher, so that he is regarded as the founder of the famous theological school ol Antioch.
		He did not escape suspicion of heresy, and is represented as the connecting link between Paul of Samosata anc Arius.
		A.D. 120-180), Greek satirist of the Silver Age of Greek literature, was born at Samosata on the Euphrates in northern Syria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LU/LUCIAN_MARTYR_.htm (933 words)

	Paul von Samosata - netlexikon
		Paulus von Samosata war in den Jahren 260 - 268 Bischof von Antiochien, der als Häretiker aus der christlichen Kirche exkommuniziert wurde.
		Paulus von Samosata wäre heute wahrscheinlich unbekannt und bedeutlunglos, hätte er nicht die Lehre vertreten, dass Jesus von Nazareth, der Christus, ein ganz normaler Mensch gewesen sei.
		In dieser häretischen Lehrmeinung wird Paulus von Samosata, zumindest nach Auffassung des Kirchenhistorikers Eusebius von Cäsarea, zu einem direkten Vorläufer des Markell von Ankyra.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Paul-von-Samosata.html (443 words)

	Footnotes
		Paul of Samosata was one of the most famous heretics of the early Church.
		Since Paul was in favor with Zenobia, his deposition could not be effected until 272, when Aurelian conquered her.
		He presided at the final council which deposed Paul of Samosata, according to the Libellus Synodicus (see Labbe, Concilia, I. 893, 901), and this is confirmed by the fact that in the encyclical epistle written by this synod his name stands first (see chap.
	www.bible.ca /history/fathers/NPNF2-01/footnote/fn46.htm (2333 words)

	Epistle to Paul of Samosata by Malchion
		Paul of Samosata: used pre-deaconesses and women singers of hymns honoring him.
		In the beginning this community of spiritual life and mutual support, which was based on St. Paul s First Epistle to the Corinthians (ix, 5), was holy and edifying.
		18 As Paul had fallen from the episcopate, as well as from the orthodox faith, Domnus, as has been said, became bishop of the church at Antioch.
	www.piney.com /MalchionSamosata.html (2055 words)

	Paul
		Although Paul of Samosata was denounced by the synods of Antioch in 264 and 268, he was not dealt with until his opponents called upon the pagan emperor to remove him from his diocese.
		Paul taught obedience to the pagans and to the Herodians at a time when their tyranny was reaching the stage of terrible excess.
		Paul's writings are intensely polemical, concerned rather with defending the gospel he was preaching, warning against teachers he disagreed with and arguing against observance of the Law.
	dawah.faithweb.com /christo/paul.htm (12360 words)

	Paul Of Samosata -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He received the emperor Aurelian's aid in settling a theological dispute between the anti-Trinitarian Paul of Samosata, the deposed bishop of Antioch, and the orthodox Domnus, Paul's successor.
		The French poet Paul Fort is usually associated with the symbolists, who sought to express emotional experience through the suggestive use of highly symbolized language.
		Paul Gaugin briefly joined van Gogh in the town of Arles, but left after the artist cut off part of his own ear.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9058771?tocId=9058771 (748 words)

	Dennis's “Greatest Moments In History” / 325 AD: The First Council of Nicaea of Adrianople (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Paul of Samosata, however, in the early 3rd century, took a different stance.
		Those who saw Christ as having been fully divine, denounced Paul and his followers as blasphemers who denied Christ's divinity; but by the same token, Paul and his followers considered the rest to be blaspheming, by falsely elevating Christ to Godhood.
		He was not by any means the first to teach such a doctrine — others had said much the same, between Paul of Samosata and himself — but none of them had been very effective at gaining followers.
	www.psicop-zone.com /dennis/nicaea.html (3012 words)

	ST. FELIX I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		The pontificate of St. Dionysius had been troubled by the heresy of Paul of Samosata.
		A council held at Antioch had deposed Paul as bishop of Antioch, but the wily heretic hung on to the Church property and refused to give it up to his successor, Demetrianus.
		And so the orthodox Demetrianus was able to take over from the heretical Paul of Samosata.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp26.htm (251 words)

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		At Gamaliel's feet Paul had grown up, learned in biblical lore, to be a "Pharisee of the Pharisees." He knew his co-religionists as he knew himself, and, familiar with every phase of the Jewish thought of the day, moved easily in its many idioms.
		Despite St. Paul's logic, and notwithstanding the Council of Jerusalem, the influence of the Judaising faction persisted, and so long as the church of Jerusalem flourished it did not lack a certain prestige.
		Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, his Pastoral Epistles, the Second Epistle of St. Peter, the Epistles of St. John and St. Jude, the Apocalypse are filled with references to the new errors and to the moral disorders they produced wherever they made an entrance.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHISTORY/HUGHHIST.TXT (19821 words)

	The View from the Foothills: A Blast from the Past
		The Church as a whole responded by calling a synod at which gathered bishops from as far away as Alexandria; they were unanimous in declaring that Paul of Samosata's teaching was heresy, and excommunicated him, choosing another man, one Domnus, to be Bishop of Antioch.
		Paul, for his part, refused to relinquish control of the church's property in Antioch; and so his successor and the synod called upon Emperor Aurelian to intervene.
		It's also why, when Paul of Samosata became a problem, a synod of bishops from all over the Christian world met to consider what to do about it, and why there decision was considered final.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/000873.html (1850 words)

	Chapter Patterer <i>to</i> Paw of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.
		Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
		A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1207/23591/2.html (265 words)

	Dennis's History of Christianity / Heresies: Arianism
		One of the people who tackled the nature of Christ, as a doctrinal matter, was Paul of Samosata (in eastern Anatolia) who became Patriarch of Antioch.
		Paul of Samosata was popular at first, but eventually, was driven from office.
		Arianism is often mistaken for a form of Gnosticism; but at no time did Paul of Samosata, Arius of Alexandria, or any of their successors teach a secret, mystical doctrine of the Gnostic style.
	pages.cthome.net /djhalnon/arius.html (1239 words)

	Epistles
		But when he (Paul) promised to give up these opinions, he believed him; and hoping that, without any reproach to the Word, the matter would be rightly settled, he postponed his decision; in which action, however, he was deceived by that denier of his God and Lord, and betrayer of the faith
		Moreover understand (Paul would say) the union with Wisdom in a different sense, namely as being one according to instruction and participation;(8) but not as if it were formed according to the substance in the body.
		Neither was the God who bore the human body and had assumed it, without knowledge(9) of human affections(10) in the first instance; (11) nor was the human body without knowledge, in the first instance, of divine operations in him in whom He (the God) was, and by whom He wrought these operations.
	www.pos1.info /m/malchepi.htm (1533 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Baba 19
		The Assembly of the Council of Antioch against Paul of Samosata.
		He was a native of Samosata, and he was chosen a Patriarch of Antioch.
		Because of him, a council assembled in the city of Antioch during the reign of Emperor Valerian and the papacy of Abba Dionysius, 14th Pope of Alexandria, which was 45 years before the Council of Nicea.
	www.copticchurch.net /synaxarium/2_19.html (471 words)

	PAULUS vom Samosata
		PAULUS von Samosata, um 260/1 bis 268, faktisch bis 272 Bischof von Antiochien.
		Es handelt sich um einen Brief, den Dionysius von Alexandrien an Paul von Samosata geschrieben haben soll und an den sich eine Sammlung von zehn Thesen anschließt, die einem Schreiben des Paulus an Dionysius entnommen seien und die in diesem Dossier von Dionysius ausführlich beantwortet werden.
		Schon der Versuch, ihn in eine Reihe mit den uns durch Origenes bekannten, etwas jüngeren Theologen der römischen Provinz Arabien, Beryllus und Herakleides, und deren Synthese einer monarchianischen Theologie und adoptianischen Christologie in Zusammenhang zu bringen, überzieht das historisch Belegbare.
	www.bautz.de /bbkl/p/Paulus_s.shtml (6278 words)

	The Christian Trinity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		Paul does not say that Christ is God, but he identifies Christ with the Holy Spirit and applies to him words of the Old Testament used of God: " I am God and.
		Thus Paul's mysticism concerned Christ, whereas the mysticism of John concerned God; not spirit and flesh, but light and darkness, a Gnostic antithesis, neither Jewish nor early Greek.
		Paul of Samosata had to put a ban upon hymns extolling Christ as God.
	www.ubfellowship.org /sources/hopkins_oer_xx.htm (3870 words)

	Christological Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
		In Acts, Peter, Philip and Paul spend themselves in their efforts to proclaim that the historical Jesus is none other than the promised Messiah of Israel, now presented also to the Gentiles.
		The tendency evidenced by Paul's use of the title "Christ Jesus" (in that order) in his later epistles shows that "Christ" has not for him lost its official, colorful, Israelitic significance.
		The Bishop of Antioch, Paul of Samosata, found himself in 260 AD unable to accept the notion of a "second, preexisting Person," which seemed to complicate the Bible's cardinal monotheistic tenet.
	www.mindspring.com /~anthonybuzzard/christ.htm (3350 words)

	Tarsus
		Tarsus, the chief town of Cilicia, and the birthplace and early residence of the apostle Paul, known then as Saul of Tarsus.
		St Paul took refuge in Tarsus after his conversion, and was later joined by Barnabas.
		Adana, Alexander, Anatolia, Athenodorus, Antiochus IV, Antony, Barnabas, Cilician Gates, Cleopatra, Darius, Julian the Apostate, Maximinus Daza, Mersin, Paul, Paul of Samosata, Pompey, Shalmanesar, Sennacherib
	www.ancientroute.com /cities/Tarsus.htm (1645 words)

	Rome - Vol II, Chapter XVI, Part 5
		The story of Paul of Samosata, who filled the metropolitan see of Antioch, while the East was in the hands of Odenathus and Zenobia, may serve to illustrate the condition and character of the times.
		Notwithstanding these scandalous vices, if Paul of Samosata had preserved the purity of the orthodox faith, his reign over the capital of Syria would have ended only with his life; and had a seasonable persecution intervened, an effort of courage might perhaps have placed him in the rank of saints and martyrs.
		Q The victory of Aurelian changed the face of the East, and the two contending parties, who applied to each other the epithets of schism and heresy, were either commanded or permitted to plead their cause before the tribunal of the conqueror.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol2/ch1605.html (2340 words)

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