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Meanings of apocryphal gospels in English

Portuguese
evangelhos apócrifos
Spanish
evangelio apócrifo
Catalan
evangeli apòcrif

Religious text about the life of Jesus excluded from the canon of the Bible.

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        Usage of apocryphal gospels in English
        1
        They must not be confounded with the apocryphal gospels of a later age.
        Companion to the Bible
        2
        The Apocryphal Gospels are full of similar histories carried to the grotesque.]
        The Life of Jesus
        3
        Origen notices, in order to censure, certain apocryphal Gospels.
        Evidences of Christianity
        4
        Apocryphal Gospels cannot resist the temptation of describing it.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
        5
        The Apocryphal Gospels are full of such legends.
        The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord / A paper read (in substance) befor...
        6
        The growth of legend and fable, in the Apocryphal Gospels, threatened to swallow up the memory of the real Jesus.
        The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
        7
        The fables which fill the pages of the Apocryphal Gospels serve chiefly to emphasise the difference between an inspired and an uninspired narrative.
        Our Lady Saint Mary
        8
        The apocryphal Gospels certainly deserve to be apocryphal; but one may suspect that a little more critical discrimination would have enlarged the Apocrypha not inconsiderably.
        Collected Essays, Volume V / Science and Christian Tradition: Es...