Apocryphal New Testament — Hone/Wake/Jones — Section 4
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Work: Apocryphal New Testament — Historical English Collection
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This council of Nice is one of the most famous and interesting events presented to us in ecclesiastical history ; and yet, what is surprising, scarcely any part of the History of the Church has been unfolded with such negligence, or rather passed over with such rapidity. The ancient writers are neither agreed with respect to the time or place in which it was assembled, the number of those who sat in council, nor the bishop who presided in it. No authentic acts of its famous sentence have been committed to writing, or at least none have been transmitted to our time.* Although it is un…
- 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
- Rights
- 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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