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Abstract

This article presents the differences in meaning of the Greek terms sth/qoj and mastoi, and their biblical contexts. In the description of the figure similar to the Son of Man in Revelation 1,13 was used the term mastoi,. Archbishop Jan Maria Michał Kowalski (1871-1942) – the translator of the Bible used in the Catholic Mariavite Church and in the Old Catholic Mariavite Church noticed this difference, and identified the figure in the Book of Revelation as female. According to Kowalski someone like a son of man dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his breast is the founder of the Mariavitism – Feliksa Maria Franciszka Kozlowska (called by the Mariavites the Little Mother). This identification had consequences for mariavite theology – soteriology, eschatology and trinitology.

Keywords

• Apocalypse of John
• Son of Man
• translation
• Mariavitism
• Catholic Mariavite
• Church