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 1  5,2|        was condemned to death, a lion, let loose upon him, fell
 2  5,3|  seashore. Next day, when a huge lion is let loose upon him in
 3  5,3|  referred to by Hippolytus). The lion speaks to Paul, and Paul
 4  5,3|          asks if this is not the lion he had previously met and
 5  5,3| previously met and baptized. The lion replies that it is. The
 6  5,3|          story of baptism of the lion (Jerome's fable of the baptized
 7  5,3|          s fable of the baptized lion [totem baptizati leonis
 8  5,3|        encounter of Paul and the lion in the stadium, just as
 9  5,3|       governor is converted. The lion escapes, and Paul is released
10  5,3|      whole fable of the baptized lion we reckon among the apocryphal
11  5,3|      when he preached, he made a lion speak to the people with
12  5,3|      converts, Paul meets a huge lion on a mountain. They become
13  5,3|          become friends, and the lion asks to be baptized. Paul
14  5,3|      Paul is arrested and a huge lion is set upon him in the “
15  5,3|           But it is the baptized lion, and he and Paul prey and
16  5,3|       They let Paul go “with his lion,” but Pelagia suffers martyrdom.
17  5,3|         It is now clear that the lion episodes are from the Acts
18  5,3|       here are Jerome's baptized lion and Commodian's talking
19  5,3|          and Commodian's talking lion; they are one. The story
20 16  |       based on Androcles and the lion.~  [28] This short martyrdom,
21 16  |         the baptized and talking lion.~  [29] Goodspeed, Ethiopic