Epistula Apostolorum (c. mid-2nd century)
1. (Chapts. 1-6 in Eth. only.) What Jesus Christ
revealed to his disciples as a letter, and how Jesus Christ revealed the letter
of the council of the apostles, the disciples of Jesus Christ, to the
Catholics; which was written because of the false apostles Simon and Cerinthus,
that no one should follow them - for in them is deceit with which they kill men
- that you may be established and not waver, not be shaken and not turn away
from the word of the Gospel that you have heard. As we have heard (it),
kept (it), and have written (it) for the whole world, so we entrust (it) to
you, our sons and daughters, in joy and in the name of God the Father, the
ruler of the world and in Jesus Christ. May Grace increase upon you.
2. (We,) John and Thomas and Peter and Andrew and James
and Philip and Bartholomew and Matthew and Nathanael and Judas Zelotes and
Cephas, we have written (or, write) to the churches of the East and
West, towards North and South, recounting and proclaiming to you concerning our
Lord Jesus Christ, as we have written; and we have heard and felt
him after he has risen from the dead; and how he has revealed to us things
great, astonishing, real. (C. Detlef G. Müller (trans), "Epistula
Apostolorum," in New Testament Apocrypha, ed. Wilhelm
Schneemelcher, 2 vols. [trans. R. McL. Wilson; Louisville, Ky.: Westminster
John Knox Press, 1991], 1:252)
The Apostolic Church Order,
or The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Holy Apostles (c. 4th century)
Greeting, sons and daughters, in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. John and Matthew and Peter (και Πετρος) and Andrew and Philip,
and Simon and James and Nathanael and Thomas and Cephas (και Κηφας) and
Bartholomew and Judas of James. (Philip Schaff, The Oldest Church Manual
Called the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles [New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1885], 238)
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