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2025-09-27

Hebrews 2:9 Textual Variant: Did Jesus Die “By the Grace of God” or “Apart from God”?

Discover the controversial textual variant in Hebrews 2:9 where some manuscripts say Jesus tasted death “apart from God” (choris theou) instead of “by the grace of God.” Bart Ehrman’s case for the harder reading and its implications for understanding Jesus’ abandonment on the cross.

Early Church on the Trinity

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 1273-1282. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 1885–1887, reprinted by Hendrickson in…

✝️ The Signing of the Cross in Early Christianity – Part 1

In this post, I’ll highlight an early source attesting to the Christian practice of making the sign of the cross with the hand. The document in question is the Odes of Solomon, a fascinating and poetic text from the early Christian era. 📜 Dating the Odes of Solomon Scholars generally date the Odes to the…