basildeans

Updated: May 10, 2025

It would be as if a man prostrate, and bleeding under a lion whose teeth and claws were infixed in his throat, should tear a handful of hairs out of the animal’s mane, and hold them up as proofs of victory. Several sects of Christians in the first century, in the apostolic era, denied that Jesus was crucified, as the Basildeans, &c.

George Bethune English - The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old