Holy Kiss: Unpacking Early Christian Practice and Athenagoras #shorts

Lesson Transcript

Assume that's what that's referring to. Now, he does not say there, Athenagoras, that the holy kiss was being exercised between men and women, but it gives that impression. I mean, he says we need to exercise the greatest care that a person's body would remain undefiled and uncorrupted, and you would think that then the next statement would be, "We give the holy kiss only to members of our own sex or our own gender." But he doesn't say that.

He says, "Therefore, if someone kisses a second time, then he's sinning." So the implication is that they were giving it between men and women. Join us in earnestly contending for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.