The Apocryphal book of Seth relates that a star descended from heaven and lighted on a mountain, in the midst of which a divine child was seen bearing a cross.
Both have their apocryphal as well as their canonical Scriptures.
What he adds in the way of narrative is so meagre in amount, and so manifestly inferior and apocryphal in character, as to prove the extreme poverty of his resources of oral tradition of this type.
Another singularly gross specimen of interpolation, in my judgment, is supplied by the purely apocryphal statement which is met with in Cod.
Another apocryphal termination is found in certain copies of the Thebaic version.
An obviously apocryphal abortion of the same date, attributed to the same poets by the same knave, has long since been struck off the roll of Webster's works.
But our estimate of John Marston's rank or regiment in the noble army of contemporary poets will not be in any way affected by acceptance or rejection of any apocryphal addition to the canon of his writings.
For the other legends concerning her history and character, which have been cherished by a very large portion of Christendom, we are wholly indebted to what are known as the Apocryphal Gospels.
The apocryphal Gospel of Mary states that she was fourteen, while the Protevangelion places her age at twelve, which is in accordance with the custom of the East, where girls mature much earlier than with us.
In addition to these, there are the apocryphal Christian writings; but these are of too late origin and contain too many manifestly absurd accounts to warrant credence, except where they are corroborated by the Evangelists.
It is a gigantic trilogy, into which are fused and co-ordinated all the dramatic representations borrowed for three centuries from the canonical and apocryphal gospels.
A generation that would despise an apocryphal book of Homer or a false Orphic hymn would not be easily satisfied with the credentials of a religion.
Hone's most important service to popular culture was his issue of the Apocryphal New Testament, which, by co-ordinating work of the same kind, gave a fresh scientific basis to the popular criticism of the gospel history.
Wilson refers to some plate armor in the Museum at Mexico, which he, of course, thinks apocryphal (New Conquest, p.
The apocryphal books were produced either in a corrupted dialect, or in Greek.
Moreover, he asserts that "this is distinctly set down in some of the apocryphal books.
The words quoted are from the apocryphal Prayer of Manasses, which, before the Council of Trent, was to be found inserted in some Latin copies of the Bible.
These words prove the falseness of the apocryphal ravings.
The aim of the work is to retain His significance for a metaphysical and non-ascetic time; and since it is not possible to do this in the case of the historical Jesus, the author denies His existence in favour of anapocryphal Jesus.
In this criticism he is at one with Schleiermacher, who in his essay on Luke(37) speaks of the unreal vividness of Mark "which often gives his Gospel an almost apocryphal aspect.
Like the Christ in the Apocryphal Acts of John, He has appeared in different forms to different minds.
The mosaics in the three other bays of this narthex depict scenes in the life of Mary as described in the apocryphal Protoevangelium of S.
If you read the apocryphal gospels you will see how eager they are to lay hold of any point in the true gospels, and spin a whole farrago of rubbish round about it.
Apocryphal Gospels cannot resist the temptation of describing it.
His mother seemed to have expected a miracle, yet in the Fourth Gospel the Cana wonder was the beginning of miracle working by Jesus; the apocryphal gospels assert that Jesus practised miracle working as a child.
Tischendorf refers toapocryphal writings "which bear on their front the names of Apostles" "used by obscure writers to palm off" their forgeries.
How is the circumstantial testimony aided by the references in the third chapter to the Apocryphal Gospels?
The Geneva Bible (1560) first adopted the present nomenclature, calling the two apocryphal books first and second Esdras.
ENOCH, BOOK OF, an apocryphal book of an assumedly prophetical character, to which considerable importance has been attached, particularly on account of St. Jude quoting it in the 14th and 15th verses of his Epistle.
In the Vulgate the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah are called the first and second, and the apocryphal books the third and fourth books of Esdras.
Yet there are incidents connected with them which the historian has left unrecorded; occurrences, it might be, too trivial or too apocryphal for his pen.
The Martyrology, the apocryphal Lives of the Apostles, and the Expositions which completed the series, cannot be now identified.
Their heroes are as apocryphal as Princess Scota of Scythia, and their genealogies vary with the motives of each genealogist.
A veryapocryphal tradition had made Peter travel to Rome, and had also made this chief of the apostles establish his see in that city.
The apocryphal matter of your lessons in Tobit, Judith, Bel and the Dragon, &c.
I am going to pack up the Hebrew Grammar, the Apocryphal Gospels, and your pretty Titian, to be sent to you.
After the foundation of the temple Zerubbabel disappears from history and lives only in legend, which continued to busy itself with his story, as we see from the apocryphal book of Esdras (cf.
Various legends are connected with him, of which the best known is given in the Apocryphal story of "Bel and the Dragon" (v.
The Apocryphal Synopsis of the 72 Disciples, by Dorotheus of Tyre, does not mention S.
Ambrose, but of questionable authenticity; and the apocryphal Acts of SS.
No Acts exist, but he is mentioned in the Apocryphal Acts of S.
