In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

* Metrodorus of Stratonicea ( late 2nd century BC )

* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.

* Alcinous ( philosopher ) ( 2nd century AD )

* Take two: Aspirin, New uses and new dangers are still being discovered as aspirin enters its 2nd century.

Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.

A 2nd century AD papyrus of Alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of Alcaeus ' poetry during the 20th century ( P. Berol.

Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.

), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.

Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.

The document is dated to the 2nd century BC and, in the form of a vision, briefly discusses dualism and the Watchers:

* Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC

The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE.

In 1893, Sir W. M. Ramsay in The Church in the Roman Empire held that the Codex Bezae ( the Western text ) rested on a recension made in Asia Minor ( somewhere between Ephesus and southern Galatia ), not later than about the middle of the 2nd century.

It was first used to describe the Christian Church in the early 2nd century to emphasize its universal scope.

In the early 2nd century, the site of the present Church had been a temple of Aphrodite ; several ancient writers alternatively describe it as a temple to Venus, the Roman equivalent to Aphrodite.

As a consequence, the anti-Domitianic tradition was already well established by the end of the 2nd century, and by the 3rd century, even expanded upon by early Church historians, who identified Domitian as an early persecutor of Christians.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

* Cross, Frank L. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2nd ed.

In the 1st century and early 2nd century the Holy See had pre-eminence and prominence in the Church as a whole.

St Pius I governed the Church in the middle of the 2nd century during the reigns of the Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

The followers of Bardaisan of Mesopotamia, a sect of the 2nd century deemed heretical by the Catholic Church, drew upon Chaldean astrology, to which Bardaisan's son Harmonius, educated in Athens, added Greek ideas including a sort of metempsychosis.

In the Early Christian Church, the presumed fact was that the Septuagint was translated by Jews before the era of Christ, and that the Septuagint at certain places gives itself more to a christological interpretation than ( say, 2nd century ) Hebrew texts, was taken as evidence, that " Jews " had changed the Hebrew text in a way that made them less christological.

** Eraño de Guzman Manalo, 2nd Executive Minister ( Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan ) of the Iglesia ni Cristo ( Church of Christ ) ( d. 2009 )

* March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 ( including 5 movements from his " Weimarer Passion ") at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

Marking the festival's importance, in several denominations, such as the Lutheran and United Methodist churches ( and formerly in the Roman Catholic Church ), all the Sundays from the holiday itself until the next Advent in late November or December are designated the 2nd, 3rd, Nth, Sunday after Pentecost, etc.

Coptic flourished as a literary language from the 2nd to 13th centuries, and its Bohairic dialect continues to be the liturgical language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.

Models of resolving the relationship between the God the Father and the God the Son were proposed in the 2nd century, but later rejected as heretical by the Christian Church.

Tertullian, a 2nd century Church Father, described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as " eunuchs " in some contexts.

The Church has always fought against this idea, beginning with its 1st and 2nd century controversies with the Gnostics of that day, including the assertion that Jesus is identified as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnōsis to the earth, as held by some Gnostic sects.

* Charles Goring, 2nd Earl of Norwich buried in Leyton Parish Church in 1671

Papias () ( writing in the first third of the 2nd century ) was a bishop of the early Church.

( 2006 ) Six Hundred New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856, 2nd Ed, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-04

Includes Church, Woodstock, Grove, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Myrtle, Mill, and Dean Streets.

These included articles setting aside 5 acres for the Humanities Church, 15 acres for parks – making Hutchinson ’ s park system the 2nd oldest in the nation, 8 lots for educational purposes and stating that Hutchinson women would have equal rights with the town.

* Mars Hill Presbyterian Church Worships on 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays.

It is only one of the three conditions ( baptism, right faith and right living ) for admission to receiving Holy Communion that the Catholic Church has always applied and that were already mentioned in the early 2nd century by Saint Justin Martyr: " And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined " ( First Apology, Chapter LXVI ).