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William Hone’s Apocryphal New Testament—although controversial upon publication—became a key text on the Apocrypha in the English-speaking world of the nineteenth century. The texts were adapted from Jeremiah Jones’s 1726 translation of the Apocrypha and William Wake’s 1693 translation of the Shepherd of Hermes and the Apostolic Fathers. Hone’s volume went through numerous reprintings, and...
AFTER the writings contained in the New Testament were selected from the numerous Gospels and Epistles then in existence, ‘what became of the Books that were rejected by the compilers? This question naturally occurs on every investigation as to the period when, and the persons by whom, the New Testament was formed. It has been supposed by many that the volume was compiled by the first council of Nice, which, according to Jortin,* originated thus: Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, and Arius, who was
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