.......from History The Church father Epiphanius told us that there were two different groups, the Christians and the Nazarenes; French Catholic Professor and First Century Assembly expert Marcel Simon, Judo-christianisme, pp 47-48 said: agrees with Epiphanius that these Nazarenes were indeed heretics. Epiphanius tells us that the Nazarenes differed from what he called the True Christians. For a long time they were regarded as irreproachable Christians, Epiphanius (Hæres. xxix.), who did not know much about them, being the first to class them among heretics. Why they are so classed is not clear, for they are reproached on the whole with nothing more than with Judaizing. As there were many Judaizing Christians at that time, the Nazarenes can not be clearly distinguished from the other sects. The well-known Bible translator Symmachus, for example, is described variously as a Judaizing Christian and as an Ebionite; while his followers, the Symmachians, are called also Nazarenes (Ambrosian, Proem in Ep. ad Gal., quoted in Hilgenfeld, Ketzergesch. p. 441). It is especially difficult to distinguish the Nazarenes from the Ebionites. Jerome obtained the Gospel according to the Hebrews (which, at one time regarded as canonical, was later classed among the Apocrypha) directly from the Nazarenes, yet he ascribed it not only to them but also to the Ebionites (Comm. in Matt. xii. 13). This gospel was written in Aramaic, not in Hebrew, but it was read exclusively by those born as Jews. Jerome quotes also fragments from the Nazarenic exposition of the Prophets (e.g., of Isa. viii. 23 [in the LXX. ix. 1]). These are the only literary remains of the Nazarenes; the remnants of the Gospel according to the Hebrews have recently been collated by Preuschen in Antilegomena (pp. 3-8, Giessen, 1901).
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