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andrewcriddle · 09-02-2012, 06:23 AM

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DeConick writes that some early Christians did think that the Holy Spirit was female

This must have been a very very minor group, and with so little known of any early christians, are you giving any historicity to this?

Marius Victorinus the 4th century Latin Christian Neo-Platonist regarded the Holy Spirit as the mother of Christ.

We have from Origen an alleged quotation from the Gospel of the Hebrews.

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And if any accept the Gospel according to the Hebrews, where the Saviour himself saith, 'Even now did my mother the Holy Spirit take me by one of mine hairs, and carried me away unto the great mountain Thabor', he will be perplexed,

Andrew Criddle

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