One of the last sane

BTW, I'm assuming you're the same Peter Kirby, in which case, your site is awesome. Thank you for that resource.

Steven Carr

<a href="http://www.uk-christian.net/boc/103g.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.uk-christian.net/boc/103g.shtml</a>

<a href="http://britishbooks.site.yahoo.net/britishbooks/3015.html" target="_blank">http://britishbooks.site.yahoo.net/britishbooks/3015.html</a>

This should answer all questions about what
happened to the Cross.

Tristan Scott

For me, the most interesting Apochrypha are the epistles between Paul and the stoic Seneca. Interesting when you consider that Seneca was the de-facto leader of Rome during Nero Caesar's early administration; he directed policy and wrote all of the young Nero's speeches. Also, it was Seneca's brother Gallio who was the Roman deputy in Achaea that pulls Paul's bacon out of the fire when he pisses off the Jews at the local Synagogue (Acts 18). It is also interesting when you consider the similarities between Pauline Christianity and Stoicism, which is an undercurrent of most of the epstles between them.

I have often wondered why the journey Paul takes to Rome, as depicted in Acts, is so anti-climactic. When you consider that the whole purpose for the Journey is so Paul can state his case with the Emperor, yet when he gets to Rome, no such meeting takes place and the story ends abruptly. Paul would have arrived in Rome in 59, the same year that Seneca lost favor with Nero. Was there a connection between the two events? In one of the Epistles, Seneca warns Paul to stay away from Rome.

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One of the last sane

Uh, no they didn't. Please explain why they should have?

Berenger Sauniere

"Isaiah was placed in a cedar tree and the tree was sawn asunder. A major portion of him was then buried in a tomb belonging to Moses, which is to be found within the inner walls of the Library of Alexandria. The rotted remains of the prophets Obadiah and Joel are buried nearby, under piles of worm infested books."

There's the apocrypha and then there's The Apocrypha!

King Arthur

Don't you mean Pseudopigrapha? What work are you referring to?

Berenger Sauniere

Yes, the 'first' line in the fragment I produced does come from a pseudepigraphic source/work commonly known as The Martyrdom of Isaiah.

However, the rest of the fragment I have created with hidden, or cloaked information. In essence, it is new Apocryphal material, as it does contain hidden meaning/information, but has not been ascribed to no one. If I had attributed it to someone, it would be pseudepigraphic.

The point being: The Apocrypha, or apocryphic works, can still be written today. I could have penned it to someone, but I had no reason to do so since I created the fragment (other than the first borrowed line). More important though, the information I cloaked has 'not' been watered down by the Church! That's the difference between the apocrypha and The Apocrypha.