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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...

TO THE SECOND EDITION Although the Apocryphal New Testament was put out without pretension or ostentatious announcement, or even solicitude for its fate, yet a large Edition has been sold in a few months. The Public demanding another, to this second Edition a small fragment of the Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, accidentally omitted, has been added: it forms the fifth chapter of that Epistle. There is, likewise annexed, a Table of the years wherein all the Books of the NEW TESTAMENT
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