1.(Bible) the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible 2.(Bible)RC Churchanother name for thePseudepigrapha ...
In the later Acts of Nereus and Achilleus the story is given with considerable changes, the name of Peter's daughter, which is not mentioned in the fragment, being given as Petronilla.(2) The contents of the Actus Vercellenses fall into three parts:(a) The first three chapters which clea...
2.Erroneous; fictitious:"Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd ... raced through Russia's trenches"(W. Bruce Lincoln). 3.ApocryphalBibleOf or having to do with the Apocrypha. a·poc′ry·phal·lyadv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyr...
The extant Lat. Epistle to the Laodiceans is a patchwork of Pauline phrases, although it is found in some MSS of the Bible; there is some doubt concerning its identity with the letter mentioned in the Muratorian Canon. The Letters of Paul and Seneca, known already to Jerome, are clearly...
The Ebionites may be described generally as Jewish Christians who aimed at maintaining as far as possible the doctrines and practices of the Old Testament and may be taken as representing originally the extreme conservative section of the Council of Jerusalem mentioned in Acts 15:1-29. They are ...