From an Early Christian Forum Why Bar Kochba persecuted Christians?:
From which I conjecture that the Early Christian Ebionaens were Conscientious Objectors. Like e.g. the Anabaptists or Quakers or Shakers.
FWIW. the Britanica says:
And James is in our Ebionaen Canon. so we can back up the conjecture with the quote:
I'm going to translate the Hebrew word "mobilize" as: mobilize; i.e. pressed into service to fight.(Bar Kokhba was derided by some as “Bar Kosiva” (a pun on the Hebrew word for liar.)That is an interpretation of one phrase in the fragments of one of Bar Kokhba's actual letters, bolstered by general statements preserved in Justin Martyr's 1st Apology and Eusebius' Chronicle.it seems to be hard history that bar Kochba persecuted Jewish Christians.
"From Simeon ben Kosiba to Yeshua ben Galgoula and to the men of the fort, peace! I take heaven to witness against me that unless you mobilise [destroy?] the Galileans who are with you every man, I will put fetters upon your feet as I did to ben Aphlul." (http://cojs.org/cojswiki/The_Bar_Kokhba_Letters:_Day-to-Day_Conduct_of_the_Revolt )
"For in the present war it is only the Christians whom Barchochebas, the leader of the rebellion of the Jews, commanded to be punished severely, if they did not deny Jesus as the Messiah and blaspheme him." Justin, First Apology 31.5-6
"Cochebas, the duke of the Jewish sect, killed the Christians with all kinds of persecutions, when they refused to help him against the Roman troops." Eusebius, Chronicle, Hadrian, year 17. (latter two at http://www.livius.org/ja-jn/jewish_wars ... tml#Justin )
Since Yeshua ben Galgoula was "Chief of the Camp" and had control of Ein Gedi, why would he have "Galileans" among the locals? Assuming they were not some sort of refugees, the term then seems then to be a catch-term for a certain group ort class of people.
It is uncertain what the Hebrew word variously translated "mobilize" or "destroy" was intended to mean.
From which I conjecture that the Early Christian Ebionaens were Conscientious Objectors. Like e.g. the Anabaptists or Quakers or Shakers.
FWIW. the Britanica says:
I can't find the quote, but the word "refused" has the flavour of conscientious Objection.Dion Cassius noted that the Christian sect refused to join the revolt.
And James is in our Ebionaen Canon. so we can back up the conjecture with the quote:
An Early Christian version of: All Wars are Bankers' Wars.From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. (James 4:1-2 [KJV])
Statistics: Posted by ebion — Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:08 pm