Sentences with phrase «called apocrypha»

These are called the Apocrypha.

They state under the category of the Holy Scriptures that, «The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.»

This diversity will now be illustrated from the extant writings of the period, commonly called the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha.2

Not exact matches

When New Testament writers refer to «the Scriptures», they always (with two exceptions, in late - written books) mean what we call the Old Testament (with or without the Apocrypha).

The Protestant Reformers, however, accepted only the earlier Palestinian Bible and separated the additions into a subsidiary collection called «The Apocrypha,» meaning literally «hidden away» — that is, withdrawn from official use.

Revelations was simply one of many stories floating around the Middle East at the time from a genre of literature called «apocrypha».

Corinthian congregational fission reappears at the end of the first century in First Clement 45 - 47, and the catalogue of New Testament Apocrypha includes Third Corinthians, the «Apocalypse of Paul,» and even a modern and useless apocryphon called the «Epistle of Kallikrates.»

Many of these are still extant and are called collectively the New Testament Apocrypha.