Sentences with phrase «such apocryphal»

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J. K. Elliott, who prepared the comprehensive translation of such early texts notes: «These apocryphal books are of importance as historical witnesses to the beliefs, prayers, practices, and interests of the society that produced and preserved them.

[50] One must not lose sight of the fact that parallel to such literary work, a growing corpus of «apocryphal» writing was being circulated and transmitted.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

But applications such as WhatsApp, which are used for one - to - one or small groups chats, became an important channel for crazy, nasty and apocryphal rumours.