antidater

Une première hypothèse dit : c'était une falsification voulue, avec laquelle, en antidatant ses œuvres au premier siècle, au temps de saint Paul, il voulait donner à sa production littéraire une autorité presque apostolique.
The first hypothesis says that it was a deliberate falsification by which, in dating his works back to the first century, to the time of St Paul, he wished to give his literary opus, a quasi apostolic authority.
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