Sub-Apostolic Literature
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]
(1) The sermon is the oldest extant in post-New Testament times, and appears to have been read (chapter xix) to a congregation. (2) Sayings of Christ not in our Gospels are quoted: (a) "The Lord, being asked when His kingdom would come, answered: When the two shall be one (i.e. when harmony shall prevail?), and when the outside shall be as the inside (i.e. when men shall be as they seem?); and the male with the female, neither male nor female" (interpreted by this preacher ascetically as discountenancing marriage, presumably because "the time is short," but explained mystically by Clement of Alexandria in Strom., iii. 13, as indicating the abolition of all distinctions in God's kingdom). Clement assigns the passage to the lost Gospel of the Egyptians. (b) "The Lord saith, ye shall be as lambs among wolves. Peter answered: What if the wolves tear the lambs? Jesus said: Let not the lambs fear the wolves: and ye, al
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Bibliography Information Orr, James, M.A., DD General Editor. Entry for 'Literature, Sub-Apostolic'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/l/literature-sub-apostolic.html. 1915.
