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Christian works, followed by refutations of their arguments. Book 2
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Christian eschatology, angelology, demonology, and so on. The quotation of the Apocalypse of Peter is interesting to modern audiences, as the work was ultimately not included in the eventual list of what would be the
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A. Capone, "The narrative sections of
Macarius Magnes’ Apocriticus", in Lessico, argomentazioni e strutture retoriche nella polemica di età cristiana (III-V sec.), a c. di A. Capone, Turnhout 2012, pp. 253-270
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