Translated from the
original by Costas Balomenos
“Apocrypha” books of the New Testament are named several texts from the 2nd century onwards, from
Christians or heretics
authors. They refer to it
the life of Christ, for the action
of the Apostles, or contain various revelations. Each one of them has a
name of a known person from the
early Church, for example, "At Thomas
Gospel," "Acts Peter," "Letter of eleven Apostles"
"Revelation Paul", etc. The “Apocrypha” are
many and were written either
to cover - with fantastic episodes -
the gaps in the history of Christ or the
Apostles, or to
disseminate heretical ideas.
The Christians, to distinguish
the original texts of the Apostles from the
inauthentic circulating then, stood out the 27
books as authentic,
which have been the body
of the books of the New Testament called “Canon”...
