Sentences with phrase «of apocrypha»

I was speaking with a friend in the CE industry a few months ago about Nook and he mentioned an interesting bit of apocrypha.

Joseph Smith's Use of the Apocrypha.

(One of the books of the Apocrypha, however, says virtually the same thing: «God did not make them [things in heaven or earth] out of things that existed.»

Two books of the Apocrypha, namely, Ben Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus) and Wisdom of Solomon are also considered as wisdom books.

The only book of the Apocrypha where such ideas are to be found is 2 Maccabees.

Or do we need to do with the New Testament as is sometimes done with the Book of Daniel — parts of it included in the text as canonical, parts of it relegated to an appendix of Apocrypha?

The 14 books of the apocrypha were included in the original 1611 King James Version.

The books of the Apocrypha were probably originally penned in - between the first three centuries B.C. and the first century A.D..

Hello, I believe what you are referring to is the books of the Apocrypha, and there are 18 of them.

i.e., The Catholic Bible includes 16 of these books, the Orthodox use 18, and the Protestant / Angelican include 18 of these Apocrypha books in it's Old Testament Cannon.

But I will supply a brief excerpt from that study here, and then if you decide to go deeper for a more complete answer you can click over and read the rest of The Apocrypha study.

Not exact matches

I am well aware of the writings in the Early Church, apocrypha, nostic gospels, writings of the Church Fathers.

Having been raised catholic, I can tell you that there's a cycle of good stories they rotate through every 4 years, leaving out some of the beautiful goodies that would make you think you were reading some kind of bible fan fiction (for bible fan fiction, look up the apocrypha).

The twenty tableaux vivants are atrocious beyond my power to describe; they are all scenes from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, linked by dubious typology to incidents in the Passion of Christ.

There was no other place for his material than here, unless the whole discourse was to be made postresurrection — as in some of the later apocrypha.

«The Wisdom of Solomon» in the Apocrypha — although Solomon did not write it — is everlastingly right when it says that the beginning of wisdom is «the desire of discipline,» the love of it, the voluntary choice of it, the discovery that self - discipline is the highway to everything that makes life worth living.

Later, in the Apocrypha, Judith changes Isaiah's picture of dead bodies being consumed to a scene of living people being tormented forever (Judith 16:17).

The Book of First Maccabees in the Old Testament Apocrypha witnesses to his resolve: «They put to death the women who had their children circumcised, and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers» necks» (1:60 - 61)

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

What that religion is, and how it branches out from Christian orthodoxy, is perhaps most fully explored in Rebel Angels, through the reflections of a winsome Anglican divine, Simon Darcourt, whose scholarly pursuit is, significantly enough, New Testament apocrypha.

At the Council of Trent in 1546 the Roman Catholic Church decreed that the Apocrypha is sacred and canonical.

In the wisdom literature of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha God's wisdom is often personified and speaks in the first person (e.g., Prov 1:20 - 33; 8; Sir 24).

In his telling, the keynote of Brown's theology is openness to God's truth wherever it is found — in Enlightenment rationalism, in Judaism, in Islam, in ancient Greek religion and culture, in the Apocrypha and the Septuagint.

If you ask why this particular collection of just these sixty - six books (or eighty, if you count the Apocrypha), and no others, form the unity which is the Bible, the only answer is that these have been handed down by the Church as its «Scriptures».

In the Old Testament and the Apocrypha the hope of a resurrection from the dead has been expressed in a clear but restrained way.

they all accept the books of the protocannon, and most except the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.

The quotations from the Apocrypha are taken from the New English Bible, and those from the Pseudepigrapha are taken from the translation supplied by R. H. Charles in The Apocrypha and Pseudspigrapha of the Old Testament in English, Vol.

See R. H. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913), 2:140 - 226, and P. Gaechter in Theological Studies 10 (1949): 485 - 521.

It is significant that in an exhaustive list of heroes in Ecclesiasticus 44 - 49 (in the Apocrypha) neither Esther nor Mordecai is named.

In the Apocrypha, two remarkable chapters, the Wisdom of Solomon 7 and Ecclesiasticus 24, also make this same kind of hypostasis.

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

Or acknowledge there are variables we leave out of the equation (wisdom literature, apocrypha, theodicy) in order to make sense of it?

In fact, even «bible» is up for some discussion, because while we can mostly say that it is cannon, there is still some considered differences in translation, and then the whole bit of whether we include the Apocrypha.

Add to that, than any number of groups consider other religons writings to be «sacred» or «inspired» or «worthy», even if they aren't in the bible or 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.»

Creation out of nothing is first mentioned in the Apocrypha: 2 Macc.

This statement is made in complete awareness of the fact that, as Klausner says, «throughout the Gospels there is not one item of ethical teaching which can not be paralleled either in the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, or in the talmudic and midrashic literature of the period near to the time of Jesus.»

I also read the Apocrypha, and did like the book of Enoch and the extra Esdras as well as the Maccabeans.

He is the author of The King and His Cross; Preface to Old Testament Theology; The Holy Scriptures: A Survey (a volume in the Seabury Press Church's Teaching Series), and The Apocrypha, Bridge of the Testaments.

Since Boyle was a» lover of the truth», he refused to financially support the publishing of SPURIOUS books, such as the non-biblical writings in the Apocrypha!

Oh, and I missed the scripture reference that tells us we can «step up to the land of more - than - enough» is that in the apocrypha or something?

A recent survey of its contents and a discussion of its role in Christianity is provided by Bruce Metzger, An Introduction to the Apocrypha [New York: Oxford University Press, 1957]-RRB-.

Then the scriptures in Gen. 35 vs. 19, there is no mention of the city Judaea there from verses Gen. 35 vs.1 - 29, not at all, or maybe it is in these newest apocrypha books, but not in the King james version 16.

The Wisdom of Solomon, in the Apocrypha, represents this submergence of Jewish apocalyptic in Greek philosophy.

Apocrypha were the ancient equivalent of horror stories, written to frighten and entertain the public, much the same way that Shakespearean plays did in the 1600s and Stephen King novels do today.

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

The Apocrypha aslo tell tales of Jesus getting angy and tossing a playmate off the roof of his house, then bringing the boy back to life again.

The Interpreter's One - Volume Commentary on the Bible: Introduction and Commentary for Each Book of the Bible Including the Apocrypha, With General Articles.

Such acceptance of Hellenistic thought, however, while typical of Alexandrian Judaism, had little, if any, influence in Palestine and, although mildly evident in the Apocrypha, it did not affect the Hebrew Old Testament.

The Apocrypha of John