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Title: The apocryphal books of the 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 companions, not included
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Hone, William, 1780-1842 Jones, Jeremiah, 1693-1724 Wake, William, 1657-1737
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Gebbie & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y Alexander,and to persuade him to make up the quarrel; and Con-stantine sent a letter by the illustrious Hosius of Cordubato Alexander and Arius, in which he reprimanded themboth for disturbing the church with their insignificant dis-putes. But the affair was gone too far to be thus composed,and Socrates represents both sides as equally contentiousand refractory. To settle this and other points, the Nicenecouncil was summoned, consisting of about three hundredand eighteen bishops,—a mystical number* of which manyprofound remarks have been made. The first thing theydid was to quarrel, and to express their resentments, andto present accusations to the emperor against one another.So say Socrates, Sozomen, and Eufinus. Theodoret favourshis brethren in this affair, and seems to throw the faultupon the laity. But the whole story, as it is related bythem all, and even by Theodoret, shows that the bishopsaccused one another. The emperor burnt all their libels, * Barnabas, viii. 11, 12, 13.
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V and exhorted them to peace and unity; so that if theyhad not been restrained by his authority, and by fearand respect, they would probably have spent their time inaltercations. This council of Nice is one of the most famous andinteresting events presented to us in ecclesiastical history ;and yet, what is surprising, scarcely any part of the Historyof the Church has been unfolded with such negligence, orrather passed over with such rapidity. The ancient writersare neither agreed wTith respect to the time or place in whichit was assembled, the number of those who sat in council,nor the bishop who presided in it. No authentic acts ofits famous sentence have been committed to writing, or atleast none have been transmitted to our time.* Although it is uncertain whether the books of the NewTestament were declared canonical by the Nicene Council,or by some other, or when or by whom they were collectedinto a volume, it is certainf that they were considered genu-ine and authentic (with a few

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