The Book of Baruch I will be speaking about here is not the other known Book of Baruch known as1 Baruch referenced as a deuterocanonical book of the bible, included with the Septuagint and the Vulgate. This is the little known about text cited by Hippolytus of Rome as one of the worst of heresies. Attributed to a gnostic leader named Justin, it remains virtually unknown to mainstream Christians today and exists only in part because Hippolytus happened to preserve it in his collection of books called the "Refutation of All Heresies." We will look at why Hippolytus and the church thought this book so dangerous that it had to be eradicated and purposely disappeared so that it could no longer be studied by the masses seeking truth.
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