Dead Sea Scrolls

NOTES

The Dead Sea Scrolls teach that when the Age of Grace comes there will be a new collection of Scripture in a “Synagogue of the Gentiles.” This collection would contain prophetic teachings from the Messiah Himself (e.g., Matthew 24, and Revelation), a beginning history of the Age of Grace (Acts), and a collection of epistles from a Benjamite (Epistles of Paul).

One will rise up from my seed in the latter times, beloved of the Lord, hearing His voice on the earth, enlightening with new knowledge all the Gentiles, bursting in on Israel for salvation with the light of knowledge, and tearing it away from them like a wolf, and giving it to the synagogue of the Gentiles. Until the consummation of the ages, he will be in the synagogues of the Gentiles, and among their rulers, as a strain of music in the mouth of all; and he will be inscribed in the holy books, both his work and his word, and he will be a chosen one of God forever.

(Testament of Benjamin 11)

SOURCES

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Forgeries

There are also circulating one epistle to the Laodiceans and one to the Alexandrians forged in the name of Paul against the heresy of Marcion. [Colossians 4 shows there is a real epistle of Laodicea also.] There are many others which cannot be received into the universal church, for it is not fitting that gall be mixed with honey.

General Epistles

Further, an epistle of Jude and two bearing the name of John are counted among the General Epistles. And Wisdom, written by the friends of Solomon in his honor. We receive the Apocalypses of John and Peter only. Some of us do not wish the Apocalypse of Peter to be read in church.

Non-Inspired

But Hermas wrote “the Shepherd” in the city of Rome most recently in our times, when his brother Bishop Pious was occupying the chair in the church at Rome. And so indeed it ought to be read, but that it be made public to the people in the church and placed among the prophets whose number is complete or among the apostles is not possible to the end of time.

Gnostic Cults

We reject everything written by Arsenus, Valentinus, or Miltiadees. We also reject those who wrote the New Book of Psalms, Marcion, Basilides, the founder of the Asian Cataphrigians and...