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“I have come to abolish sacrifices, and if you do not cease sacrificing, the wrath of God will not cease from you!”
Did Jesus really speak these threatening words? Which few people know about, especially Christian clergy, who have been blind to the information. We have this information through the ancient writer, Epiphanius, who quotes a passage from the Ebionite gospel, which claims that Jesus said, “I have come to abolish sacrifices, and if you do not cease sacrificing, the wrath of God will not cease from you.” Epiphanius Panarion 30.16.5., also cited in the Cambridge University Press. So who were the Ebionites? Well, the Christians among will know the better as “The Poor,” who are mentioned in the New Testament. “Blessed are the poor, in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3. In Luke, we see Jesus, basically forcing the rich to feed his (Poor) followers, rather than the more wealth feeding their families, or friends. Luke 14:12-14. The Ebionites/the poor, were the original followers of Jesus, who were victimizes by the early Catholic Church, who stigmatize them as Heretics.
See Epiphanius below on Paul.
I have included this for the commentator, Danl Boone. To show that Epiphanius also writes disingenuously about Paul!
Jerome (347-c. 420) says differently that Paul’s family were from Gischala, Galilee. *Epiphanius (4th century CE) wrote: “They declare that he (Paul) was a Greek (not a **Jew)…” He went up to Jerusalem, they say, and when he had spent some time there, he was seized with a passion to marry the daughter of the (Jewish) priest. For this reason, he became a proselyte (convert) and was circumcised. Then, when he failed to get the girl, he flew into a rage and wrote against circumcision and against the sabbath and the Torah (bible/Five Books of Moses). [Epiphanius, Panarion, 30.16. 6–9].
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Jero Jones
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