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FRAGMENTS OF EARLY GOSPELS, ETC.

3. Travels of John (=Acts) lines 2,600

4. Travels of Thomas lines 1,600

5. Gospel according to Thomas lines 1300

6. Teaching (Didache) of the Apostles lines 200

7. Of Clement (two Epistles) lines 2,600

8. Of Ignatius, Polycarp, and Hermas.

c. The Synopsis of Scripture 'of Athanasius'.

Extant in but one manuscript, at Eton. In the list of Old Testament Apocrypha it is identical with the last, only it does not give the number of lines. In the New Testament list it is confused, calling the obviously apocryphal books 'disputed' only, and omitting the real 'antilegomena'. Thus:

Of the New Testament again these are disputed. Travels of Peter, Travels of John, Travels of Thomas, Gospel according to Thomas, Teaching of the Apostles, Clementine writings: out of which the truer and inspired portions have been selected and paraphrased.

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