![]() ![]() Admittedly its authenticity is doubted, since few early writers refer to it, any more than to 'Jude's', which is also one of the seven called general. II.23: Such is the story of JAMES, to whom is attributed the first of the 'general' epistles. They imparted it to the other apostles, and the other apostles to the seventy.' James the Righteous, John, and Peter were entrusted by the Lord after his resurrection with the higher knowledge. Clement, in Outlines Book VI, puts it thus, 'Peter, James and John, after the Ascension of the Saviour, did not claim pre-eminence because the Saviour had especially honored them, but chose James the Righteous as Bishop of Jerusalem. ![]() This James, as the, whom the early Christians surnamed the Righteous' because of his outstanding virtue, was the first (as the records tell us) to be elected to the episcopal throne of the Jerusalem church. For he too was called Joseph's son, and Joseph Christ's father, though in fact the Virgin was his betrothed, and before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit, as the inspired Gospel narrative tells us. Book 1.1: Then there was JAMES who was known as the brother of the Lord. ![]()
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