Apocryphal New Testament — Hone/Wake/Jones — Section 5
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Work: Apocryphal New Testament — Historical English Collection
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In a complete collection of the Apocryphal writings the Apostles' Creed is necessarily included, and as necessarily given, as it stood in the fourth and until the sixth century, (from Mr. Justice Bailey's edition of the Common Prayer Book), without the article of Christ's Descent into Hell; — an interpolation concerning which the author of the Preface to the Catalogue of the MSS. of the King's Library thus expresses himself: ''I wish that the insertion of the article of Christ's Descent into Hell into the Apostles' Creed could be as well accounted for as the insertion of the said ver…
- Source
- The Apocryphal New Testament: being all the gospels, epistles, and other pieces now extant, attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His apostles and their companion
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
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- Existing approved legacy passages only; completeness against full historical work UNVERIFIED
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
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