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Here is the panarion of Epiphanius writing and accusing the Sabellians .. why they used the Shema as part of their scripture apologetic!
Epiphanius Panarion Bks II & III (2013)
Translated by Frank Williams
https://archive.org/details/Epiphani.../n141/mode/2up
Quote:
2,1 They use all the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, but [especially] certain texts which they select themselves in keeping with the idiocy and stupidity of their own which they have introduced. (2)
First, God’s words to Moses, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is one.” 7
“Thou shalt not make to thyself other gods.”8 “
There shall not be unto thee new gods,”9
for “I am God, the first and the last, and beside me there is no other.”10
And whatever of this sort < they find, < they alter > to suit themselves, and advance it as proof of these doctrines. Again, [they use] the saying from the Gospel, “I am in the Father and the Father in me, and we two are one.”11
7 Deut 6:4.
8 Cf. F.xod 20:3.
9 Ps 80:10.
10 Isa 44:6.
11 Cf. John 10:38; 30.
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Then, after a reference from a Gospel to the Egyptians that Epiphanius thinks they used, we have a very interesting paragraph.
Quote:
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2,6 Then, when they encounter simple or innocent persons who do not understand the sacred scriptures clearly, they give them this first fright: “What are we to say, gentlemen? Have we one God or three gods?" But when someone who is devout but does not fully understand the truth hears this, he is disturbed and assents to their error at once, and comes to deny the existence of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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This has a lot of similarity to the sections from Tertullian and Origen which indicate that the common Christian believer did not really want complex ontological speculations, and had something more like a simple one God perspective.