10 in mind. The supernatural events surrounding the manif estations of Christ word the world were all-.important. to They stressed the Baptism of Christ because of the voice fran heaven and the descending of the dove. This mentality led to accepting the miracle at cana as a subject for the f east. H01Never , Danilou tains that it is the biblical use of word that is pr.imary in the ture tradition of the Church. The dominant theme here, as the opposed to the gnostic or Hellenistic understanding , is the caning of Christ into the world. This meaning of the word ''epiphany" be traced fran Psalm 117 can the opening chapters of l1lke and the Pastoral Epistles, to Origen, to Clement and Justin. Originally, then , Epiphany was an ideological 26 cx:mnemoration of the caning of Christ in the f lesh. Conclusion We have atterrpted to shCM a relationship between the Jewish feast of Tabernacles and the Christian feast of Epiphany . In doing so we have was seen hCM very early in the pr.imitive Church, the opening of the liturgical disassociated f year ran the Jewish f estival fran which it had nated. This is, to a large extent , "Why f rom the beginning, the feast of Epiphany had a note of instability about it. To add f urther to the conf usion or a:>nplexity, see the gnostic tendency understand this f east in tenns of we to supernatural manifestations rather the simple biblical acoount of Christ 's birth at Bethlehem. than Various new thenes such as the miracle at na , the adoration of the .agi and, above all, Christ 's Baptism in the were stressed. dan Finally we can say that f ollCMing the hypopthesis of phany, shoul we to look at the Jewish milieu rather the Hellenistic sun-cults for the themes of our feasts have than of Chrisbnas and Epiphany. Hoewever , two since Hellenistic culture played such an :important role the ment of our the in feasts especially in the third and fourth centuries , the semnd part of this / paper will deal with this question .
10 word in mind. The supernatural events surrounding the manif estations of Christ to the world were all-.important. They stressed the Baptism of Christ because of the voice fran heaven and the descending of the dove. This mentality led to accepting the miracle at cana as a subject for the f east. H01Never , Danilou tains that it is the biblical use of the word that is pr.imary in the ture tradition of the Church. The dominant theme here, as opposed to the gnostic or Hellenistic understanding , is the caning of Christ into the world. This meaning of the word ''epiphany" can be traced fran Psalm 117 to the opening chapters of l1lke and the Pastoral Epistles, to Origen, Clement and Justin. 26 Originally, then , Epiphany was an ideological cx:mnemoration of the caning of Christ in the f lesh. Conclusion We have atterrpted to shCM a relationship between the Jewish feast of Tabernacles and the Christian feast of Epiphany . In doing so we have seen hCM very early in the pr.imitive Church, the opening of the liturgical year was disassociated f ran the Jewish f estival fran which it had nated. This is, to a large extent , "Why f rom the beginning, the feast of Epiphany had a note of instability about it. To add f urther to the conf usion or a:>nplexity, we see the gnostic tendency to understand this f east in tenns of supernatural manifestations rather than the simple biblical acoount of Christ 's birth at Bethlehem. Various new thenes such as the miracle at na , the adoration of the .agi and, above all, Christ 's Baptism in the dan were stressed. Finally we can say that f ollCMing the hypopthesis of phany, we shoul have to look at the Jewish milieu rather than the Hellenistic sun-cults for the themes of our feasts of Chrisbnas and Epiphany. Hoewever , since the Hellenistic culture played such an :important role in the ment of our two feasts / especially in the third and fourth centuries , the semnd part of this paper will deal with this question .
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