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Could the New Testament Apocryphal tractates (the "Hidden Books" including the Nag Hammadi Codices and all non-canonical NT literature) have been authored after the Council of Nicaea as a Hellenistic satirical reaction to the NT Canon, representing the final voice of The Greek Second Sophistic?

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Are these stories in fact Greek satire from the fourth century
containing a seditious reaction to the formation of the
fourth century state religion of Constantine?

Constantine's Prohibition of Pagan Sacrifice
T. D. Barnes, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 69-72

    • On the assumption that Eusebius' report is reliable and accurate, it may be argued that in 324 Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire, and that he carried through a systematic and coherent reformation, at least in the eastern provinces which he conquered in 324 as a professed Christian in a Christian crusade against the last of the persecutor.
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