Church Father,gave a detailed description of the Natsarim

[Larry]

Church Father,

Epiphanius

 

 

gave a detailed description of the Natsarim:

 

 

 

 

 

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We shall now especially consider heretics

who.. call themselves Nazarenes; they are

 

mainly Jews and nothing else. They make

use not only of the New Testament, but they

also use in a way the Old Testament of the

Jews; for they do not forbid the books of the

Law, the Prophets, and the Writings... so

that they are approved of by the Jews, from

whom the Nazarenes do not differ in anything,

and they profess all the dogmas pertaining

to the prescriptions of the Law and

to the customs of the Jews, except they

believe in Messiah. They preach that there is

but one God, and His Son Yeshua the Messiah.

But they are very learned in the Hebrew

language; for they, like the Jews, read

the whole Law, then the Prophets...They

differ from the Jews because they believe in

Messiah, and from the Christians in that

they are to this day bound to the Jewish

rites, such as circumcision, the Sabbath,

and other ceremonies. They have the Good

news according to Matthew in its entirety in

Hebrew. For it is clear that they still preserve

this, in the Hebrew alphabet, as it was

originally written”.

[Arnold Swartland]

Omein! Netzarim are all the above.