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Excerpt from The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles: Together With the Apocalypses of Each One of Them
The parallels with our Syriac Apocalypses are obvious. The Testament of our Lord is seen to be itself an Apocalypse, employed as the prologue to a collection of Canons; and the Syriac Gospel and Apocalypses occupy the same position with regard to the decrees of the councils which follow it. There is the same literary model for both-collections.
Sufficient comparisons have now been drawn to establish our belief that the new work which we are discussing is Edessan in origin, and belongs to a well-defined Apocalyptic tradition and manner. It is, therefore, more than ever unlikely that there is any fact underlying the statement as to the Hebrew origin of the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles as it appears in our text. If there be any truth in the statement, its confirmation must come from within rather than from without.
We pass on to discuss the actual date of the composition as betrayed by its Apocalyptic element.
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