Lost and Hostile Gospels

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Baring-Gould Sabine. Lost and Hostile Gospels

Preface

Part I. The Jewish Anti-Gospels

I. The Silence Of Josephus

II. The Cause Of The Silence Of Josephus

III. The Jew Of Celsus

IV. The Talmud

V. The Counter-Gospels

VI. The First Toledoth Jeschu

VII. The Second Toledoth Jeschu

Part II. The Lost Petrine Gospels

I. The Gospel Of The Hebrews

1. The Fragments extant

2. Doubtful Fragments

3. The Origin of the Gospel of the Hebrews

II. The Clementine Gospel

III. The Gospel Of St. Peter

IV. The Gospel Of The Egyptians

Part III. The Lost Pauline Gospels

I. The Gospel Of The Lord

II. The Gospel Of Truth

III. The Gospel Of Eve

IV. The Gospel Of Perfection

V. The Gospel Of St. Philip

VI. The Gospel Of Judas

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It is somewhat remarkable that no contemporary, or even early, account of the life of our Lord exists, except from the pens of Christian writers.

That we have none by Roman or Greek writers is not, perhaps, to be wondered at; but it is singular that neither Philo, Josephus, nor Justus of Tiberias, should have ever alluded to Christ or to primitive Christianity.

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The Nicolaitans, taking advantage of the liberty accorded them in one direction, assumed it in another. In the letter to the Church of Pergamos, in the Apocalypse, they are denounced as “eating things sacrificed to idols, and committing fornication.”65 They are referred to as the followers of Balaam, both in that Epistle and in the Epistles of Jude and the 2nd of St. Peter. This is because Balaam has the same significance as Nicolas.66 Jude, the brother of James, writes of them: “Certain men are crept in unawares … ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness … who defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities,” i. e. of the apostles; “these speak evil of those things which they know not; but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.”

And St. Peter wrote in wrath and horror. “It had been better not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”67

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