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  2. Apostolic Canons - Wikipedia

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    The Apostolic Canons, [1] also called Apostolic canons [2] (Latin: Canones apostolorum, [3] "Canons of the Apostles"), Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles, [4] or Canons of the Holy Apostles, [5] [6] is a 4th-century Syrian Christian text.

  3. Biblical canon - Wikipedia

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    A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning 'rule' or 'measuring stick'. The use of canon to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by David Ruhnken, in the ...

  4. Apostolic Constitutions - Wikipedia

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    The Apostolic Constitutions or Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Latin: Constitutiones Apostolorum) is a Christian collection divided into eight books which is classified among the Church Orders, a genre of early Christian literature, that offered authoritative pseudo-apostolic prescriptions on moral conduct, liturgy and Church organization. [1]

  5. Ancient church orders - Wikipedia

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    The final chapter of the eighth book is known as the Canons of the Apostles and had a wider circulation than the rest of the Apostolic Constitutions the Verona Palimpsest , or Fragmentum Veronese , first published in 1900 by Edmund Hauler , contains Latin free and incomplete versions of the Didascalia Apostolorum , Apostolic Church-Ordinanc e ...

  6. Muratorian fragment - Wikipedia

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    Last page of the Canon Muratori, as published by Tregelles in 1868. The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon (Latin: Canon Muratori), is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament.

  7. Development of the Old Testament canon - Wikipedia

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    Canon n. 85 of the Ecclesiastical Canons of the Same Holy Apostles is a list of canonical books, [130] includes 46 books of Old Testament canon which essentially corresponds to that of the Septuagint. The Old Testament part of the Canon n. 85 stated as follows: [131]

  8. Development of the New Testament canon - Wikipedia

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    The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible.For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [1] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.

  9. Apostolic constitution - Wikipedia

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    Approbation (Catholic canon law) Confession. Penitential canons. Paenitentiale Theodori; Seal of the Confessional; Internal and external forum. Note on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability of the Sacramental Seal; Apostolic Penitentiary; Canon penitentiary; Complicit absolution. Sacramentum Poenitentiae; Eucharist ...