Re: poor or beggar

From: James H. Vellenga (jhv0@viewlogic.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 1996 - 13:57:22 EDT


>From Stephen Carlson:
>
> While we are engaging in unabashed speculation, I think this proposal has
> the additional virtue of explaining the origin of name "Ebionites." In
> HE III.27.6, Eusebius says of the Ebionites:
>
> ... TOU *EBIWNAIWN ONOMATOS THN THS DIANOIAS PTWXEIAN AUTWN hUPOFAINONTOS:
> TAUTHi GAR EPIKLAN hO PTWXOS PAR' *hEBRAIOIS ONOMAZETAI.
>
> "... for the name of Ebionites indicates the poverty of their intelligence,
> for this name means 'poor' in Hebrew.[2]" (tr. Kirsopp Lake)
>
It occurs to me that if PTWCOI refers to itinerant missionaries,
there might be references to such in the Didache, as a reasonably systematic
compendium of early church practice. I don't have access to a copy,
but is there anyone on the net who would like to check it out? Or
if the Didache doesn't refer to such or to their support, would that
be a strong suggestion that they were not a common practice?

And if the term refers to a sect such as the Ebionites, would there
be a reference in another early history such as Josephus?

Regards,
Jim V.

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