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THE APOCALYPSE OF PETER. 1 . . . . many of them will be false prophets, and will teach divers ways and doctrines of perdition: but these will become sons of perdition. 3. And then God will come unto my faithful ones who hunger and thirst and are afflicted and purify their souls in this life; and he will judge the sons of lawlessness. 4.
In an old Latin homily on the Ten Virgins found and published by Dom Wilmart (Bulletin d'anc. litt. et d'arche'ol. chre't.) is this sentence: The closed door is the river of fire by which the ungodly shall be kept out of the kingdom of God, as is written in Daniel and in Peter, in his Apocalypse....
The Apocalypse of Peter describes a divine vision experienced by Peter through Christ. After inquiring for signs of the Second Coming of Jesus, the work delves into a vision of the afterlife (katabasis), and details both heavenly bliss for the righteous and infernal punishments for the damned.
The Apocalypse of Peter. Three different apocalypses surviving from ancient Christianity claim to have been written by Peter.
The Apocalypse of Peter, from The Nag Hammadi Library. This site includes the entire Nag Hammadi Library, as well as a large collection of other primary Gnostic scriptures and documents.
The Apocalypse of Peter, also known as the Revelation of Peter, is a piece of literature believed to have been written around the middle of the second century A.D. The Apocalypse of Peter should not be confused with the Gnostic Gospel of Peter, a completely different work.
Apocalypse of Peter, pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) Christian writing dating from the first half of the 2nd century ad. The unknown author, who claimed to be Peter the Apostle, relied on the canonical Gospels and on Revelation to John to construct a conversation between himself and
The Apocalypse of Peter is one of the fifty-three religious treatises which comprise the recently-found Coptic Gnostic Li-. brary of Nag Hammadi.1 This collection of texts, written in the late Egyptian script known as Coptic, was discovered by.
PETER, APOCALYPSE OF. The Apocalypse of Peter is one of the few apoc. that enjoyed a measure of temporary or local canonicity. It is mentioned in the Muratorian Canon, with the comment that some did not want it read in church; there were thus reservations even at this early stage.
The Apocalypse of Peter (Greek version) is framed as a vision granted to Peter by Jesus, first of heaven, and then of hell. It provides graphic descriptions of both, especially of hell, where the punishment of various types of sinners is spelled out in sometimes excruciating detail.