The various elements are taken up in their chronological sequence.—Book I, chapters ixxxvi. The apocalyptic opening has been found in a Latin MS. of the eighth century, and published by M. R. James, “Apocrypha Anecdota” (Cambridge, 1893). Origen, “De Principiis”, III, ii, 1, names the Assumption of Moses—’Analepsis Mouseos—as the book cited by the Epistle of Jude, 9, where there is an allusion to a dispute between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses. This apocryphon abounds in absurdities and psychological impossibilities, and is a very weak piece of fiction written in Greek by an Alexandrian Jew, and probably designed to encourage its countrymen in the midst of persecutions. )—Teaching of Addai (Thaddeus). This is an extensive pseudograph, consisting of (1) narrations in which each of the twelve sons of Jacob relates his life, embellished by Midrashic expansions of the Biblical data; (2) exhortations by each patriarch to the practice of virtues, or the shunning of vices illustrated in his life; (3) apocalyptic portions concerning the future of the twelve tribes, and the Messianic times. Pilate at the time believing this, delivered Him to them. St. Peter is buried at “The place called the Vatican“, and Paul on the Ostian Way. They triumph and slay their oppressors in a Messianic kingdom without a personal Messias. The Muratorian Fragmentist mentions together with a spurious epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans, one to the Alexandrians, which was forged under the auspices of Marcion. Ancient literature, especially in the Orient, used methods much more free and elastic than those permitted by our modern and Occidental culture. The Jewish apocalypses furnish the completing links in the progress of Jewish theology and fill what would otherwise be a gap, though a small one, between the advanced stage marked by the deuterocanonical books and its full maturity in the time of Our Lord; a maturity so relatively perfect that Jesus could suppose as existing in the popular consciousness, without teaching de novo, the doctrines of future retribution, the resurrection of the body, and the existence, nature, and office of angels. which remain. While it is possible that St. Justin may have heard of such a report, and even probable that the procurator transmitted some account of the events at Jerusalem to Rome, it is on the other hand admissible that Justin’s assertion was based on nothing more than hypothesis. In this the Catholic Acts have been preserved; it is by no means uniform in its various manuscript representatives. See the separate article under this title. The motive which first prompted the fabrication of spurious Acts of the Apostles was, in general, to give Apostolic support to heretical systems, especially those of the many sects which are comprised under the term Gnosticism. Going further back, the “Encomium” of Modestus, Bishop of Jerusalem, in the seventh century (P.G., LXXXVI, 3311), and the Pseudo-Dionysius of the fifth (De divinis nominibus, iii), probably suppose an acquaintance with apocryphal narratives of the Death and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. For this purpose all the departed just will rise from a mysterious abode, though apparently not in the body (ciii, 3, 4). This briefly relates the fatuous crime of the Jews in persecuting the Holy One promised to them by their God; enumerates His miracles and states that the Jews accused Jesus of being a magician. ; the Book of Parables between 94-64 B.C. They are found in Greek and Syriac in a MS. of the sixth or seventh century. There are probable traces of the Henoch literature in other portions of the New Testament. It was obviously suggested by the lost genuine Pauline letter referred to in I Cor. The birth, education, and marriage of the Blessed Virgin are described in the first eleven chapters and these are the source of various traditions current among the faithful. His youthful miracles are worked at times out of mere childish fancy, as when He formed clay pigeons, and at a clap of His hands they flew away as living birds; sometimes, from beneficence; but again from a kind of harsh retribution. This means Protestants do not accept the Apocrypha. Among the lost Jewish apocrypha, the one worthy of special notice here is (b) The Book of Jannes and Mambres, and II Timothy, iii, 8, applies these names to the Egyptian magicians who reproduced some of the wonders wrought by Moses. The few citations of patristic writers were unable to convey an idea of its contents, but fortunately a considerable fragment of this ancient document was discovered at Akhmin, Egypt, together with the pseudo-Petrine Gospel in the language of the original, viz., Greek. Its body contains an account of the fall of the angelic “Watchers”, their punishment, and the patriarch’s intervention in their history. Harnack asserts that the Hebrew Gospel was entirely independent, the tradition it contained being parallel to that of Matthew. In a vehement and glowing style the book delineates under its prophetic guise the impiety of Israel’s Hasmonean rulers and Sadducean priests. Its composite character appears clearly from the palpable differences in eschatology, in the views of the origin of sin and of the character and importance of the Messias found in portions otherwise marked off from each other by diversities of subject. “Apocrypha” means “hidden things,” and that’s a misnomer, because these books aren’t and never have been hidden. ), who will allow at most a probability that certain brief sections appertain to a Gospel of the Twelve Apostles, written originally in Greek and current among Gnostic Ebionites as early as the second century. A still later fabrication is found in the Latin Epistola Pilati ad Tiberium. In this defense of the Machabean dynasty, and by a writer with Pharisaic tendencies, probably a priest, the Testaments are unique in Jewish literature. There is a very systematic chronology according to the years, weeks of years, and jubilees. Yet, withal, no apocryphal work found official recognition in the Western Church. But the seven deuterocanonical books were added at the Council of Trent (1546) in order to justify Catholic doctrinal inventions. It is said that there are many such references. The composition is based on II Paralipomenon, xxxiii, 11-13, which states that Manasses was carried captive to Babylon and there repented; while the same source (18) refers to his prayer as recorded in certain chronicles which are lost. The Greek has the superscription: “The Account of St. John the Theologian of the Falling Asleep of the Holy Mother of God“. It comes from Greek and is formed from the combination of apo (away) and kryptein (hide or conceal). These narratives have a common groundwork, though varying considerably in minor circumstances. (See The Legend of Abgar.). For this end there will be a resurrection of all Israel and a judgment in which the Son of Man will render to everyone according to his deeds. The prototype was evidently expurgated by a Catholic hand, who, however, did not succeed in eradicating all traces of its original taint. Messianism of course plays an important part in apocalyptic eschatology and the idea of the Messias in certain books received a very high development. Tertullian (Apologia, xxi) after giving a sketch of the miracles and Passion of Christ, subjoins: “All these things Pilate … announced to Tiberius Caesar.” A comparison between this pericope and the Pseudo-Pilate report reveals a literary dependence between them, though the critics differ as to the priority of these documents. (See the section on the Testamentum above.) It consists of twenty short lines and is mainly made of matter taken from Philippians and other Epistles, and pieced together without sequence or logical aim. Particularism and the transcendence of the last cosmic stage are the notes of this apocalypse. The Muratorian Fragment, written at Rome in the latter part of the second century, names the apocalypses of John and Peter side by side as the only ones received in the Church, remarking that some do not acknowledge the latter. The preponderant authority represented by Charles and Schtirer assigns it to the latter part of the second century before Christ, but Baldensperger would bring it down to a half century before our Era. As early as the sixth century the Gelasian Decretum brands this correspondence as spurious. in Abyssinia by the traveller Bruce in 1773. ror Acta Pilati or “Gospel of Nicodemus“, see the separate article. The “Acta Pauli”, presumed to be a distinct composition, were deemed to have perished; but recently (1899) a Coptic papyrus MS., torn to shreds, was found in Egypt, and proves to contain approximately complete the identical Acts of Paul alluded to by a few ecclesiastical writers. Our apocryphon exists only in Latin and translations from the Latin, though it gives signs of a Greek original. A Coptic “Acts of Philip” is also to be noted. From it also he derived his four cardinal virtues: prudence, righteousness (or justice), fortitude, temperance; phronesis, dikaiosune, andreia, sophrosine, and it was through Fourth Machabees that this category was appropriated by early Christian ascetical writers. They were added by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent after Luther rejected it. Lipsius assigns the kernel of the Martyrdom to the second century; Bardenhewer refers the whole to the first half of the third. They are based on the early traditions of Seneca’s leanings towards Christianity and the contemporary residence at Rome of Paul and the philosopher. The outlook was most dark and the national life seemed utterly extinguished. The Arabic is a translation of a lost Syriac original. Probably with this second class are to be included the “Testaments of Job” and “Zacharias“, the “Adam Books”, the “Book of Creation“, the “Story of Aphikia” (the wife of Jesus Sirach). Some Orthodox prefer the Eastern term anagignoskomena("things that ar… A comparison of the least extravagant of these productions with the real Gospels reveals the chasm separating them. (2) The Ascension proper. A Messianic deliverer is looked for, but he is to be merely human. It is true, all the extant specimens of the apocryphal Gospels take the inspired evangelical documents as their starting point. The term Christian here is used in a comprehensive sense and embraces works produced both by Catholics and heretics; the latter are chiefly members of the various branches or schools of Gnosticism, which flourished in the second and third centuries. The prayer breathes a Christian spirit, and it is not entirely certain that it is really of Jewish origin. A beautiful penitential prayer put in the mouth of Manasses, King of Juda, who carried idolatrous abominations so far. Iniquity will be banished from the earth and the reign of the Messias will be everlasting. The Catholic order is one of the big differences, second would be the book of Daniel. This indicates the date of the apocalypse’s fabrication. A Gospel of Matthias is mentioned by Origen and Eusebius among the heretical literature along with the Peter and Thomas Gospels. She is persecuted, but miraculously escapes from the fire and the savage beasts of the arena. The book then returns to the doings of Moses and Josue. The scene is Persia and Babylonia. The language has a Jewish-Christian savor. The Synod of Braga, in Spain, held in the year 563, anathematizes any one “who reads, approves, or defends the injurious fictions set in circulation by heretics”. Acts of Sts. It was composed by a Catholic presbyter about 160-170, and is a disguised attack on some of the leading errors of Gnosticism. See the separate article under this title. and A.D. 10. Scholars favor the first quarter of the second century. The Pseudo-Clementine homilies contain as a preface two letters, the first of which purports to be from Peter to James the Less, beseeching him to keep his (Peter’s) preaching secret. Gospel of St. Matthew.—This is a Latin composition of the fourth or fifth century. A narrative of the flight into Egypt is adorned with poetic wonders. They are extant in the original Greek and in a Latin version. These Acts as we have them are of high antiquity, though it is impossible to always discern whether patristic writers are quoting from them or an earlier tradition. Peter and Paul. This is a myth that always comes up but is simple to answer. Not to mention the Shepherd of Hermas, the Acts of St. Paul (at least in the Thecla portion) and the Apocalypse of St. Peter were highly revered at this and later periods. Catholic and many Orthodox Bibles have 7 more books in their Old Testaments than most modern Protestant translations of the Bible. There is a spurious “Apocalypse of John”, of comparatively late origin. The work is a compilation and refers expressly to the “Book of Joseph Caiphas, the High-Priest“, the “Gospel of the Infancy”, and the “Perfect Gospel”. It was evidently very ancient, and several of the abovementioned writers associate it with St. Matthew’s Gospel, which it seems to have replaced in the Jewish-Christian community at an early date. Clement of Alexandria, who was credulous concerning apocryphal literature, quotes with respect several times the “Tradition of Matthias”. The aim of the Hellenistic Jewish author was to inculcate devotion to the Law. The remaining ten tribes are supposed to be yet in existence, and are urged to be faithful to the representatives of the priestly and royal power. The wicked will go into the Sheol of darkness and fire and dwell there forever. (See Saint Matthew, Apostle. In retribution that city is swallowed up by the sea. Deuteronomy and the Apocrypha | Catholic Answers The book of Deuteronomy is one of the five first books of the Old Testament and part of what is sometimes called the ‘Hebrew canon” of Scripture. Jewish apocalyptic is an attempt to supply the place of prophecy, which had been dead for centuries, and it has its roots in the sacred oracles of Israel. Lipsius opines that the work as we have it is a Catholic retouching of a Gnostic compilation. The fragment narrates part of the Passion, the Burial, and Resurrection. The Hasmonean dynasty and the Sadducees are denounced. The author was a Pharisee, but one who, while adopting a distinctly Jewish view, was probably acquainted with the Christian Scriptures and freely laid them under contribution. This recounts a contest between three young Hebrews of the bodyguard of King Darius, each striving to formulate the wisest saying. As for the lowest date, the book is employed by the Jewish portion of the “Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs”. It begins with an apocalypse of the approaching day of Antichrist alleged to have been uttered by Our Lord after His Resurrection. For example, we see it advocating magic where the smoke of a fish heart on a fire drives away devils. The author did not pose seriously as an evangelist, since he explicitly quotes from the fourth canonical Gospel. Origen and Eusebius expressly name the prakeis Paulou; Tertullian speaks of writings falsely attributed to Paul: “Quod si Pauli perperam inscripta legunt.” He is cautioning his readers against the tale of Thecla preaching and baptizing herself. All mankind sinned with Adam. Sometimes the Messianic realm is placed upon the transfigured earth, centering in a new Jerusalem; in other works it is lifted into the Heavens; in some books the Messias is wanting or is apparently merely human, while the Parables of Henoch with their preexistent Messias mark the highest point of development of the Messianic concept to be found in the whole range of Hebrew literature. The Elect, or Messias, will gather the dispersed tribes, but God alone will punish the enemies of Israel. It purports to be a relation of the heroic death of St. Andrew by eyewitnesses who are “presbyters and deacons of the Church of Achaia“. The observance of the Law is insisted on. It gives an account of an attempted desecration of the Temple at Jerusalem by the Egyptian king, Ptolemy IV (Philopator), after his victory over Antiochus the Great at Raphia, 217 B.C., and the miraculous frustration of his endeavor to wreak vengeance upon the Egyptian Jews through a massacre with elephants. The point is that the Old Testament canon had to be established by the church after Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension. The work has affinities with Fourth Esdras and the “Apocalypse of Baruch“. The author was a Jew, and in all likelihood a Palestinian one. of the Psalms. It is natural to attempt to trace a resemblance between this pseudograph and certain references of ecclesiastical writers to Acta or Gesta of Pilate. (3) The Epistle to the Florentines was expounded in a sermon of Savonarola, October 25, 1495. The date cannot be determined. The Apocrypha consists of a set of books written between approximately 400 B.C. Another collection was formed in the Frankish Church in the sixth century, probably by a monk. However, not the Chaldeans, but angels, will bring about the destruction. We will merely note the existence of a spurious Letter of St. John, the Apostle, to a dropsical man, healing his disease, in the Acts of St. John by the pseudo-Prochorus; one of St. James, the Bishop of Jerusalem, to Quadratus, in Armenian (Vetter, Litterarische Rundschau, 1896). Their Gnostic traits pierce through the Catholic retouching; in fact, the contents show a conscious purpose to exalt the dualistic doctrine of abstention from conjugal intercourse. It is cited by Byzantine authors down to the twelfth century. But this position has been successfully combated by Dr. Baumstark in the “Revue Biblique” (April, 1906, 245 sqq. Both Catholics and Gnostics were concerned in writing these fictions. The names are not found in the Old Testament. Pseudographic composition was in vogue among the Jews in the two centuries before Christ and for some time later. However, there are grains of historical material in the Thecla story. APOCRYPHA OF JEWISH ORIGIN WITH CHRISTIAN ACCRETIONS, (2) Pilate Literature and Other Apocrypha Concerning Christ. Criticism recognizes, scattered here and there, interpolations from a lost apocalypse, the Book of Noe. Apocrypha is a plural word (singular: apocryphon) that originally denoted hidden or secret writings, to be read only by initiates into a given Christian group. The dragons, lions, and other wild beasts of the desert adore the infant Jesus. Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566 by the theologian Sixtus of Siena, who had converted to Catholicism from Judaism, to describe scriptural texts considered canonical by the Catholic Church, but which recognition was considered "secondary". Answer: With respect to sacred Scripture, the Apocrypha are those religious books written in the Old and New Testaments eras that claimed a sacred origin but were ultimately judged by the Catholic Church as not inspired by the Holy Spirit. These are to be distinguished from the Gnostic Acts of Peter and the orthodox Acts of Paul. In the Catholic edition the book is complete, in the non-Catholic edition a non complete version of Daniel is in the normal position (in the prophets), and the other parts; The Prayer of Azariah, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon (which are included in the Catholic Daniel) are placed separately in the Apocrypha. The final chapters of the entire work, cv-cvii, are drawn from the lost Book of Noe. The whole is a legendary tissue. A certain “Doctrine of Peter”, mentioned by a later writer, was probably identical with the “Preaching”. The “Teaching of Addai”, a Syrian apocryphon (q.v. The author would learn the future of his nation. After that we hear no more of it until it was found in an Ethiopic MS. in the last century. It could scarcely have been composed later than the middle of the second century and it is not at all impossible that it retouched some primitive material not represented in the canonical Gospels. This purports to be the description by Isaias of a vision in which he was rapt up through the seven heavens to the presence of the Trinity, and beheld the descent of the Son, “the Beloved”, on His mission of redemption. Its composition must be assigned to the first quarter or the middle of the second century of the Christian era. R. H. Charles, an English specialist, breaks up this part into at least two distinct constituents. (See Laodicea.) inf.). The book is lengthy. Going a step further back than the fault of the Watchers of the first book, he attributes their fall to certain mysterious Satans. It is four lines in length.—Pseudo-Epistles of St. Paul. As for the letter of Abgar, its genuineness was formerly favored by many skilled in this literature, but since the discovery of the “Teaching of Addai”, published in 1876, the presumption against the authentic character of Abgar’s epistle, owing to the close resemblance of a portion to passages in the Gospels, has become an established certainty. It is impossible to ascertain its date, but it was probably composed before the Mohammedan era. It is probable that the eudographic letter was forged as an offset to these. Its data, however, are so vague that it is impossible to fix the time of its composition. Peter receives Paul at Rome with joy. Answers. It pretends to have been written by St. Matthew and translated by St. Jerome. (See Agrapha.). The scanty citations which have been preserved in the Fathers indicate a tendency towards the Encratite condemnation of marriage, and a pantheistic Gnosticism. Recently a large Greek fragment comprising chapters i—xxxii was unearthed at Akhmin in Egypt. It deals in part with the same problems, viz., the sufferings of the theocratic people, and their ultimate triumph over their oppressors. The Church and the Fathers were hostile even towards the narratives of orthodox authorship. The narrative is based upon the mutual relations and activities of Barnabas, Mark, and Paul, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles.—Gesta Matthioe. Much of their apocryphal matter was taken up by the offices of the Apostles in the Latin breviaries and lectionaries, composed in the seventh and eighth centuries at an extremely uncritical period. The relation between the Gospel according to the Hebrews and our canonical Matthew Gospel is a matter of controversy. Twenty-four fragments have been preserved by ecclesiastical writers. There exists a late and entirely orthodox Syriac “Gospel of the Twelve Apostles“, published by J. Rendel Harris (Cambridge, 1900). Dan., xii, 4, 9, where the prophet is bidden to shut up and seal an inspired book until an appointed time). In 1876 an ancient Syriac document, entitled “The Teaching of Addai, the Apostle”, was published for the first time. Our Lord replied as follows: “Blessed art thou because thou hast believed in Me without seeing Me. But a clue to it may be recognized in the so-called Fourth Book of Esdras, which relates that Esdras (Ezra) by divine inspiration composed ninety-four books. The narrative is in close dependence on St. John’s Gospel. So great was the oblivion into which they fell that only scanty fragments of Greek and Latin versions were preserved in the West. A comparison of the Ethiopic text with the Akhmin Greek fragment proves that the former is in general a trustworthy translation. It is found in MSS. consists of two parts: (1) The Martyrdom of Isaias, in which it is told that the prophet was sawn in two by the order of the wicked King Manasses. It exists in two of the oldest codices of the Septuagint, viz., Vaticanus and Alexandrinus, where it precedes the canonical Esdras. The first argument which is found in Roman Catholic discussions about the Old Testament Apocrypha has to do with the lack of a fixed or established canon in Jesus’ day. “Apocrypha” - A neuter plural noun, means “something hidden, secret, or concealed.” It refers to the works which were written for an inner circle of people, sometimes a heretical sect. Eastern Orthodox Old Testament "Apocrypha" In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Old Testament Apocrypha comprises books such as the Assumption of Moses, Ascension of Isaiah, Apocalypse of Elijah, Book of Enoch, and the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. It may be read in English in Walker’s and the Ante-Nicene Fathers’ collection of the apocrypha. Monsignor Rahmani assigns the Testament to the second century, and places the above works in the relation of dependence on it. But the genuine Gospels are silent about long stretches of the life of Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin, and St. Joseph. The originally Gnostic apocryphal Acts were gathered into collections which bore the name of the periodoi (Circuits) or prakeis (Acts) of the Apostles, and to which was attached the name of a Leucius Charinus, who may have formed the compilation. These are on one side c. 300 B.C., the latest time assigned to Paralipomenon-Esdras-Nehernias, and on the other, c. A.D. 100, the era of Josephus, who employed Third Esdras. When, therefore, enterprising spirits responded to this natural craving by pretended Gospels full of romantic fables and fantastic and striking details, their fabrications were eagerly read and largely accepted as true by common folk who were devoid of any critical faculty and who were predisposed to believe what so luxuriously fed their pious curiosity. (I) The Epistle of the Blessed Virgin to St. Ignatius Martyr fills but nine lines in the Fabricius edition of the apocrypha. 28). No marked heretical notes are found in the recovered fragment, but there are passages which are easily susceptible of a heterodox meaning. But the most recent research, led by the Rev. After the Resurrection the soldiers whom the governor had placed at the tomb were bribed by the leaders to be silent, but nevertheless divulged the fact. It purports to reveal the secrets seen by the Apostle in his transport to the third heaven, alluded to in II Cor., xii, 2, and was composed in Greek. In the first, lxxxiii-lxxxiv, is portrayed the dreadful visitation of the flood, about to fall upon the earth. A considerable Latin fragment has also been recovered. The most important and valuable of the extant Jewish apocrypha are those which have a large apocalyptic element; that is, which profess to contain visions and revelations of the unseen world and the Messianic future. (See Saint Matthew, Apostle; Apostolic Churches)., Acts of St. Thomas. Undoubtedly it was the large use heretical circles, especially the Gnostic sects, made of this insinuating literature which first called forth the animadversions of the official guardians of doctrinal purity. the inhabitants of Messina, Sicily, is equally brief; it conveys an exhortation to faith, and a blessing. v, 9; vii, 1. Clement of Alexandria, always credulous with regard to apocrypha, even honored it with a commentary; Eusebius (Hist. An originally Arabic “History of Joseph the Carpenter” is published in Tischendorf’s collection of apocrypha. Hebrew prophecy on its human side had its springs, its occasions, and immediate objects in the present; the prophets were inspired men who found matter for comfort as well as rebuke and warning in the actual conditions of Israel’s theocratic life. ), Gospel according to the Hebrews. What is their origin? The Apocalypse of Mary is of medieval origin, and is probably merely the outcome of an extravagant devotion. This find has established the fact that the long-known Acts of Paul and Thecla and the apocryphal correspondence of St. Paul with the Corinthian Church, as well as the Martyrdom of St. Paul, are really only excerpts from the original Pauline Acts. The artificiality and tediousness of the apocalypse are redeemed by a singular breadth of view and elevation of doctrine, with the limitation noted. In 1899 Monsignor Rahmani, Patriarch of the United Syrians, published from a late MS. the Syriac text, a Latin introduction and translation. 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