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subject	book bibliographic info
illuminate, illumination,	Karfíková (2012), Grace and the Will According to Augustine, 12, 23, 47, 111, 118, 201, 323
illuminated, manuscripts	MacDougall (2022), Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition. 144
illuminated, mss. of terence	Boeghold (2022), When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. 9, 25
illumination	Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 324, 331, 334, 335 Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 16, 40, 77, 115, 120, 154, 157, 158, 180, 182 Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 1, 38, 171, 266 Langworthy (2019), Gregory of Nazianzus’ Soteriological Pneumatology, 26, 63, 82, 86, 97, 105, 108, 119, 120, 121, 122, 143, 144 Lynskey (2021), Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics, 52, 59, 62, 103, 152, 154, 174, 175, 200, 201, 204, 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 221, 223, 226, 229, 230, 286, 305 Ramelli (2013), The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis: A Critical Assessment from the New Testament to Eriugena, 129, 148, 175, 178, 181, 193, 197, 209, 211, 376, 425, 427, 429, 434, 801 Schibli (2002), Hierocles of Alexandria, 254, 271, 282, 291, 308 Wilson (2012), The Sentences of Sextus, 68, 131, 134, 196, 279, 392 Wilson (2018), Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology, 98, 129, 201
illumination, / ellampsis	Belayche and Massa (2021), Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 9, 10, 11
illumination, didactic plots	Oksanish (2019), Benedikt Eckhardt, and Meret Strothmann, Law in the Roman Provinces, 16, 17, 18
illumination, divine	Cheuk-Yin Yam (2019), Trinity and Grace in Augustine, 65, 159, 160, 161, 194, 224, 225, 227, 349, 352
illumination, ellampsis, theurgy and ἔλλαμψις‎	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 227, 228, 236, 237
illumination, ellampsis, ἔλλαμψις‎, and traces of the forms	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 158
illumination, ellampsis, ἔλλαμψις‎, from intellect	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 229
illumination, ellampsis, ἔλλαμψις‎, from one	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 90
illumination, ellampsis, ἔλλαμψις‎, of eye and intellect	d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 274
illumination, light	Trettel (2019), Desires in Paradise: An Interpretative Study of Augustine's City of God 14, 46, 115, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 152, 153
illumination, metaphor for writing of late sequence	Wynne (2019), Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage, 11
illumination, of passover haggadah, tradition of	Lieber (2014), A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue, 256
illuminator, apoc. adam	Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 75, 269
illuminator, bishop of armenia, gregory the	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 548, 549
illuminator, gregory the	Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 53, 55
illuminator, gregory, st. gregory the	Merz and Tieleman (2012), Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, 142
illuminator, of autogenes	Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 43, 258
illuminator, of knowledge	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 278
illumined, by isis, sun, golden	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 322
illumined, by light of isis, gods, with human feet in procession	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 15, 251
illumined, by, isis, sun	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 322
illumined, with ecstasies of supreme god	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 28, 336
illumines, other gods, isis, light of	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 15, 251
illumines, other gods, light, pf isis	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 15, 251
seth/illuminator, descent, of	Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 269

List of validated texts:

9 validated results for "illumination"

1. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 36.26 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • illumination • illumination,

Found in books: Lynskey (2021), Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics, 152; Wilson (2018), Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology, 201

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36.26 וְנָתַתִּי לָכֶם לֵב חָדָשׁ וְרוּחַ חֲדָשָׁה אֶתֵּן בְּקִרְבְּכֶם וַהֲסִרֹתִי אֶת־לֵב הָאֶבֶן מִבְּשַׂרְכֶם וְנָתַתִּי לָכֶם לֵב בָּשָׂר׃'' None

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36.26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.'' None

2. Philo of Alexandria, On The Preliminary Studies, 145 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • illumination • light, illumination

Found in books: Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 335; Werline et al. (2008), Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry Into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity, 91

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145 What then is there wonderful if the soul, which sees both the whole and the parts, sees them too better than they do, as if it were furnished with larger and more acute eyes? Very naturally, therefore, proper philosophy will behold intermediate instruction its handmaiden, and she that she is pregt, more than the other will see that she is. XXVI. '' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • didactic plots, illumination • illumination (metaphor for writing of Late Sequence)

Found in books: Oksanish (2019), Benedikt Eckhardt, and Meret Strothmann, Law in the Roman Provinces, 16, 17; Wynne (2019), Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage, 11

4. New Testament, Colossians, 1.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Descent, of Seth/Illuminator • Illuminator, Apoc. Adam • light, illumination

Found in books: Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 269; Werline et al. (2008), Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry Into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity, 25

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1.15 ὅς ἐστιν εἰκὼν τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀοράτου, πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως,'' None

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1.15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. '' None

5. New Testament, Philippians, 2.6, 3.9-3.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Descent, of Seth/Illuminator • Illuminator, Apoc. Adam • illumination • light, illumination

Found in books: Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 324; Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 269; Werline et al. (2008), Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry Into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity, 25, 152

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2.6 ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ, ^3.9 μὴ ἔχων ἐμὴν δικαιοσύνην τὴν ἐκ νόμου ἀλλὰ τὴν διὰ πίστεως Χριστοῦ, τὴν ἐκ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην ἐπὶ τῇ πίστει, ^3.10 τοῦ γνῶναι αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τῆς ἀναστάσεως αὐτοῦ καὶ κοινωνίαν παθημάτων αὐτοῦ, συμμορφιζόμενος τῷ θανάτῳ αὐτοῦ,'' None

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2.6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God, " ^3.9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; ^3.10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death; '" None

6. New Testament, John, 1.4, 1.8-1.14, 1.18, 1.38, 3.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Descent, of Seth/Illuminator • Illuminator, Apoc. Adam • illuminate, illumination • illumination • light, illumination

Found in books: Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 331, 334; Karfíková (2012), Grace and the Will According to Augustine, 111; Langworthy (2019), Gregory of Nazianzus’ Soteriological Pneumatology, 119; Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 269; Werline et al. (2008), Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry Into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity, 119, 122

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1.4 ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ^1.8 οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖνος τὸ φῶς, ἀλλʼ ἵνα μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ φωτός. ^1.9 Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινὸν ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. ^1.10 ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἦν, καὶ ὁ κόσμος διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ ὁ κόσμος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἔγνω. ^1.11 Εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἦλθεν, καὶ οἱ ἴδιοι αὐτὸν οὐ παρέλαβον. ^1.12 ὅσοι δὲ ἔλαβον αὐτόν, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα θεοῦ γενέσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, ^1.13 οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς ἀλλʼ ἐκ θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν. ^1.14 Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός, πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας·?̔ ^1.18 θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε· μονογενὴς θεὸς ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο. ^1.38 στραφεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ θεασάμενος αὐτοὺς ἀκολουθοῦντας λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ζητεῖτε; οἱ δὲ εἶπαν αὐτῷ Ῥαββεί, ?̔ὃ λέγεται μεθερμηνευόμενον Διδάσκαλε?̓ ποῦ μένεις; ^3.5 ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος, οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.' ' None

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1.4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ^1.8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. ^1.9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. ' "^1.10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. " "^1.11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. " "^1.12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: " '^1.13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ^1.14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. ^1.18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. ^1.38 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?"They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?" ^3.5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can\'t enter into the Kingdom of God! ' ' None

7. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • illumination • theurgy and illumination (ellampsis, ἔλλαμψις‎)

Found in books: Dillon and Timotin (2015), Platonic Theories of Prayer, 16; d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 237

8. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • illumination • light, illumination

Found in books: Schibli (2002), Hierocles of Alexandria, 291; Trettel (2019), Desires in Paradise: An Interpretative Study of Augustine's City of God 14, 123

9. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • divine illumination • light, illumination

Found in books: Cheuk-Yin Yam (2019), Trinity and Grace in Augustine, 160; Trettel (2019), Desires in Paradise: An Interpretative Study of Augustine's City of God 14, 126

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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