The Lost Books of the Bible, [1926], at sacred-texts.com
THE
Lost Books
OF THE
BIBLE
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, BY ITS COMPILERS, IN THE AUTHORIZED NEW TESTAMENT; AND, THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED SYRIAC MSS. OF PILATE'S LETTERS TO TIBERIUS, ETC.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL TONGUES
ILLUSTRATED FROM ANCIENT PAINTINGS AND MISSALS
New York: Alpha House
[1926]
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, August 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion.
"Christ was the joyous boy of the fields. We are not permitted to think that the shadows of Calvary darkened His pathway as a youth, and the Apocryphal Books of the New Testament show a great deal of the early life of Christ not to be found in the four Evangelists."
—Dr. Talmage
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MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF NICE PRESENTING THEIR DECISION TO THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE: FOURTH CENTURY. FROM AN EARLY GREEK MANUSCRIPT