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How was it that early Christian reflection on Jesus emerged so rapidly and with such a high degree of definition? What patterns of interpretation, already known in late Second Temple Palestine, crystallized around the person of Jesus Christ and his work? Margaret Barker believes that Christian theology matured quickly because it was the return to a far older faith. Those who preserved the...

Ephesus as the ‘saints’. The Christians at Colossae had already been raised with Christ (Col. 3:1) and John knew that those who had been anointed knew all things (1 John 2:20). These are images of high priesthood, the resurrected state. This is the high priesthood of all believers. The holy of holies was the invisible creation, beyond the veil and so outside matter and time, and rituals in the holy of holies were deemed to take place in eternity, before the creation of the visible world. Thus Enoch
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