09-04-2008, 04:01 AM
No way, there are plenty of things composed in Aramaic in the 1st century AD that I do not consider scriptural. I mean things like the Odes of Solomon - so Orthodox in it's message, it could be placed right up there next to the Psalms. But it wasn't written by an apostle or an immediate disciple, so it won't make it into any canon just because of the language of composition.
I don't get how any church considers 1Clement scriptural, broad or narrow. The book is obviously validating paganism, and what of this priesthood in Egypt it speaks about? This is a priesthood of what? A mythical fire-bird?
I don't get how any church considers 1Clement scriptural, broad or narrow. The book is obviously validating paganism, and what of this priesthood in Egypt it speaks about? This is a priesthood of what? A mythical fire-bird?