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The Epistle of the Apostles (Latin: Epistula Apostolorum) is a work of New Testament apocrypha.Despite its name, it is more a gospel or an apocalypse than an epistle.The work takes the form of an open letter purportedly from the remaining eleven apostles describing key events of the life of Jesus, followed by a dialogue between the resurrected Jesus and the apostles where Jesus reveals ...
An epistle (/ ɪ ˈ p ɪ s əl /; from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ) 'letter') is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter.
The translation was likely made from Greek, but the influence of the Syriac translation is noticeable. The translator consulted the Syriac translation. According to another explanation, the initial translation was made from Syriac and was later revised based on Greek manuscripts. [54] The original Armenian translation has not survived. [55]
This is the oldest extant translation of the Gospels into an English language. [7] The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Produced in approximately 990, they are the first translation of all four gospels into English without the Latin text. [5]
From that time on, the translation of the Bible into the native language was to begin, although there were various obstacles, such as being under the authority of the Church of Antioch, and so on. The oldest Georgian manuscripts date back to the ninth century, but scholars doubt that there may have been various Christian texts translated into ...
Jerome's first epistle to Paulinus is the letter number 53 of Jerome, addressed to Paulinus of Nola. It has been used as the preface for the Gutenberg Bible . This Bible was published by Johannes Gutenberg and Johann Fust in Mainz, Germany in 1454.
First lines of H54 (54th page of Codex Hierosolymitanus), showing the beginning of the Didache, and the Greek text transcribed below.. Codex Hierosolymitanus (also called the Bryennios manuscript or the Jerusalem Codex, often designated simply "H" in scholarly discourse) is an 11th-century Greek manuscript.
The end part of the Second Epistle of Peter (3:16–18) and the beginning of the First Epistle of John (1:1–2:9) on the same page of Codex Alexandrinus (AD 400–440) 1 John 4:11-12, 14–17 in Papyrus 9 (P. Oxy. 402; 3rd century) The earliest written versions of the epistle have been lost; some of the earliest surviving manuscripts include ...