By Christopher R Matthews
This learn investigates the heritage of the traditions that coalesced round the identify Philip within the New testomony and different early Christian literature. It proposes that every one of this fabric finally owes its genesis to at least one ancient and literary determine, Philip the apostle. This proposition is explored via a wide-ranging exam of the proof: Luke's redactional employment of conventional fabrics approximately Philip the apostle in Acts 8:4-25 and 8:26-40, the proof of the canonical Gospels, the second-century standpoint on Philip as an apostolic authority determine invoked to valid numerous Christian practices, Philip's apostolic authority in "gnostic" records for the transmission of the revelatory educating of Jesus, and the Acts of Philip as a witness to the formation of Christian tradition within the earliest centuries. whereas old matters are thought of the place attainable, the focal point is at the lifetime of the traditions and their reception.
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10 (Kortner)48 The above-mentioned Papias recounted what he learned from the daughters of Philip (toe, 7capaA,ap If all of Luke's Philip traditions in Acts are connected with the evangelist, and if it was the evangelist and his daughters who were behind the Philip traditions of Asia Minor, then Philip the evangelist is effectively, if not in fact, Philip the apostle; the apostle as a separate figure would be no more than a phantom who inexplicably gained a place in the disciple lists. 36 Although it is not stated explicitly that the Philip referred to here is the apostle,37 this is the clear implication of the context in which Proclus offsets Roman claims to "the trophies of the apostles" with those of his own region. 38 That the proponents of the New Prophecy have merely resorted to Acts 21:8-9 to devise an "apostolic" apologetic for their position does not take into account the claim of access to the tombs of Philip and his daughters, which indicates that local traditions are involved.