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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[1609] Another reading is: And was rent from the top, etc.
[1610] Luke ii. 26. One of the mss. here adds Matt. ii. 19-23, with two or three verbal changes.
[1611] [Assuming that this is among the most ancient of the Apocryphal Gospels, it is noteworthy that the writer abstains from elaborating his statements on points fully narrated in the Canonical Gospels. The supplementary character of the earliest of these writings is obvious. But what a contrast between the impressive silence of the New Testament narratives, and the garrulity, not to say indelicacy, of these detailed descriptions of the Nativity!—R.]
[1612] The mss. vary much in the doxology.
[1613] [This introduction is, of itself, an evidence of late origin.—R.]
[1614] Lit., to Latin ears.
Reply to Their Letter by Jerome.
[1615] Lit., conscious of gold.
[1616] Two of themss. have this prologue: I James, the son of Joseph, living in the fear of God, have written all that with my own eyes I saw coming to pass in the time of the nativity of the holy virgin Mary, or of the Lord the Saviour: giving thanks to God, who has given me wisdom in the accounts of His Advent, showing His abounding grace to the twelve tribes of Israel.
[1617] Tobit i. 7.
[1618] One of themss. has: Only they vowed that, if God should give them offspring, they would devote it to the service of the temple; and because of this, they were wont to go to the temple of the Lord at each of the yearly festivals.
[1619] Another reading is: Where he has died—reading mortuus for moratus.
[1620] Comp. Tobit ii. 10.
[1624] Faustus the Manichæan said that Joachim was of the tribe of Levi (August. xxiii. 4, Contra Faustum). As belonging to the tribe of Judah, he had not the right of sacrifice.
[1625] Comp. Judg. xiii. 20.
[1626] Comp. Acts ix. 11.
[1627] This is the Beautiful gate of Acts iii. 2, to which, according to Josephus, there was an ascent by many steps from the valley of Kedron.
[1628] Corresponding with the fifteen Songs of Degrees, Ps. cxx.-cxxxiv. See Smith’s Dict.—art. Songs of Degrees. Another reading is: And there were about the temple, according to the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, fifteen steps of ascent: the temple was on a mountain, and there had been there built the altar of burnt-offering, which could not be reached but by steps.
[1629] For the hours of prayer, see Apost. Const., ch. xl.; Jerome’s letters to Læta, Demetrias, etc.
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