Gospel of Basilides

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The Gospel of Basilides is a "lost" text from the New Testament apocrypha by Basilides, mentioned by Origen,[1] Jerome, Ambrose,[2] Philip of Side, and the Venerable Bede.[3] It was composed in Egypt around 120 to 140 AD. In all likelihood, this gospel was compiled of canonical gospels, the text being shortened and altered to suit Basilides's Gnostic tenets, a diatessaron. or harmony, on Gnostic (Docetic) lines.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Homilies on Luke 1.1
  2. ↑ Expositio, Euangelii, Lucae i.2
  3. ↑ In Lucae Euangelium Expositio I
  4. ↑  "Basilides". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 
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