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Apocalypsis (II)

II. APOCALYPSIS, or Revelations of S. Peter, an apocryphal Book mentioned by Eusebius1, and S. Jerom2, and cited by Clemens of Alexandria in his Hypotyposes3. There is none of it remaining that we know of. Sozomen4 says, that in his time there was an Apocalypse of S. Paul read upon Good-Fridays in the Church, when all the people fasted religiously, in memory of our Saviour’s Passion.

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  1. Euseb. l. iii. c. 3. Hist. Eccl. ↩

  2. Hieronym. in Catalog. Scriptur. Eccl. ↩

  3. Apud Euseb. l. vi. c. 14. Hist. Eccles. ↩

  4. Sozomen. l. vii. c. 19. ↩

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