A Greek treatise on discipline and doctrine traditionally attributed to the Apostles , but probably written by a bishop of the 3rd century , in Syria. It was first printed in 1854 , in Syriac. It forms the basis of the first eight books of the Apostolic Constitutions , a 4th-century collection regarded as a valuable historical document, revealing the moral and religious conditions and liturgical observances of the 3rd and 4th centuries . It deals with the treatment of penitents, the duties of the laity and clergy , and the defense against heresy . The Old Testament, the Gospels, and Epistles are frequently quoted. Often called the earliest attempt to compile a corpus (body) of canon law , it never had a great vogue and was superseded by the Apostolic Constitutions . <\/p>\n
Instructions of the Apostles A Greek treatise on discipline and doctrine traditionally attributed to the Apostles , but probably written by a bishop of the 3rd century , in Syria. It was first printed in 1854 , in Syriac. It forms the basis of the first eight books of the Apostolic Constitutions , a 4th-century … Continue reading “Instructions of the Apostles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}