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  1 Text|           forget thy wicked works, and abandon this temporary life, and
  2 Text|              And they have fixed their abode in the house of Stachys
  3 Text|       fornication of their eyes, shall abound like the deluge. And they
  4     | above
  5 Text|           godless persons who will not accept the word of Thy truth.~And
  6 Text|             the spittle of a woman who accompanies them; and it is perhaps
  7 Text|             all the sorcery: and there accompany them a leopard and a kid,
  8     | according
  9 Text|               his heart, has completed adultery. And on this account our
 10 Text|                with us, that we may be aide to withstand those that
 11 Text|              knowest our thoughts, the All-surveyor of all, who sends forth
 12     | alone
 13 Text|              and spotless, that we may altogether live in sanctity. If, then,
 14     | among
 15 Text|              rage. and was filled with anger; and he ordered Philip,
 16     | another
 17     | anything
 18 Text|                 And the Saviour having appeared at that hour, said to Philip:
 19 Text|           beginning, and she it is who arms herself against the faithful;
 20 Text|               their hearts are full of arrogance, eating and drinking in
 21 Text|              That generation is turned aside; but blessed is he that
 22 Text|             from us: Hear us before we ask. Thou who seest us before
 23 Text|           walked about the street, and asked those in the city: What
 24 Text|                those who have been led astray; Thou who hast given us
 25 Text|             some of those who had been baptized ran to loose Philip hanging
 26 Text|             brother, behold the son of Barega-that is the living water-has
 27 Text|            beastly and impious work of base desire, and reject vain
 28 Text|             take away from thyself the beastly and impious work of base
 29 Text|             has gone forth to the wild beasts of the desert, and they
 30     | became
 31 Text|                leave thee lying on the bed from thy disease? Whence,
 32 Text|             namely desire, by which he begets disease in the soul, which
 33 Text|                us signs and wonders on behalf of those of little faith;
 34 Text|                of eternal life; and we believe, having seen the wonderful
 35     | besides
 36 Text|                and saying: It would be better for thee to be put to death
 37     | beyond
 38 Text|                and left him. And after binding Bartholomew hand and foot,
 39 Text|              and appoint him ruler and bishop in the Church, that he may
 40 Text|               the house of Stachys the blind man, whom they made to recover
 41 Text|                 Let us drain out their blood as they hang head downward,
 42 Text|            destruction; for you are in bondage by the unbelief and deception
 43 Text|                thee: I shall break thy bonds, and cut them from their
 44 Text|               to deliver thee: I shall break thy bonds, and cut them
 45 Text|            wicked dragon breathing has breathed upon you: why do you punish
 46 Text|        deceived you, the wicked dragon breathing has breathed upon you: why
 47 Text|               prize? Philip, behold my bridal chamber is ready, and blessed
 48 Text|                he who is called by the bridegroom. Great is the harvest of
 49 Text|             that the sight of the eyes brings gainsaying, and the beginning
 50 Text|               body, and prepare it for burial in Syrian paper, and do
 51 Text|             And when he heard that, he burned with rage. and was filled
 52 Text|            Thou who seest us before we call, who knowest our thoughts,
 53     | can
 54 Text| dwelling-place-why have you been taken captive by your enemy the serpent,
 55 Text|             said: O rearer of tyrants, cast away from thyself this tyranny,
 56 Text|             worshippers of God. And he caused thongs to be brought, and
 57 Text|          appoint not such a one to the chair of the teachers, lest thou
 58 Text|               Philip, behold my bridal chamber is ready, and blessed is
 59 Text|             appearance of her body was changed, and became a glass chest
 60 Text|             prepare for thyself a life chaste and spotless, that we may
 61 Text|            changed, and became a glass chest filled with light, and they
 62 Text|              to the men of the city: O children of the serpent, how great
 63 Text|               of our Lord, and wrap it close in paper and papyrus, and
 64 Text|              do not put about it linen cloth, since they put it upon
 65 Text|              Thee, the true Judge, but clothe me in Thy shining robe,
 66 Text|                And he ordered to bring clubs and strong cords; and after
 67 Text|             You ought therefore, after coming to us, or rather through
 68 Text|             members of their flesh and commit fornication in their hearts,
 69 Text|                not, let their fruit be common.~My brother Bartholomew,
 70 Text|               in the city: What is the commotion, and who are these men,
 71 Text|         manifest that thou also art in communion with them. Thou also, therefore,
 72 Text|                from Himself unnumbered compassions; let the abyss open its
 73 Text|            after her in his heart, has completed adultery. And on this account
 74 Text|                who sows and reaps, and completes, and increases, and vivifies
 75 Text|         knowledge, who hast graciously conferred upon us the counsel of Thy
 76 Text|                crown to those who have conquered; Thou who art the judge
 77 Text|               I will live with thee in continence.~And when the tyrant heard
 78 Text|              enemy. Let their walk and conversation be well ordered, that they
 79 Text|          teaches should have his works corresponding to his words, that the word
 80 Text|       graciously conferred upon us the counsel of Thy goodness, who hast
 81 Text|             door, heard this, and took courage before them all, crying
 82 Text|               has no form in the whole creation, either in the heaven or
 83 Text|              in Lycaonia, and shall be crucified there; and Mariamne shall
 84 Text|               preaching, and have been cured of this my disease. I reverence
 85 Text|             shall break thy bonds, and cut them from their root. Behold,
 86 Text|           Where is John to-day, in the day of our need? for behold,
 87 Text|              this reason thou shalt be debarred in the next world for forty
 88 Text|             the will of my God, am His debtor for what I requited to him
 89 Text|            bondage by the unbelief and deception of his son, who is without
 90 Text|             they, for the priests have decided thus: Let us drain out their
 91 Text|               the Jerusalem above, the delight of my dwelling-place-why
 92 Text|            serpent; but I have come to deliver thee: I shall break thy
 93 Text|               for behold, we are being delivered froth our bodies. And they
 94 Text|                their root. Behold, the Deliverer that frees thee has come:
 95 Text|            eyes, shall abound like the deluge. And they grow immoderate
 96 Text|              to nothing every idol and demon, and all the power of the
 97 Text|              And when I came here, the demons lied from our faces through
 98 Text|              to the wild beasts of the desert, and they have become quiet
 99 Text|              the holy commandment, and despising it. That generation is turned
100 Text|                Do not go then into his destruction; for you are in bondage
101 Text|             throw out the venom of the devil from your bodies.~And as
102 Text|         darkness? or who dwells in the dirt, and leaves his dwelling-place
103 Text|              about these men, how they disturbed our houses, and the whole
104     | does
105 Text|                ever you have seen such doings, you will not be put about
106 Text|            Thou to the ages; Thou whom dominions and powers fear, trembling
107     | done
108 Text|                blood as they hang head downward, and mix it with wine, and
109 Text|              ankles, and hung him head downwards on a tree that was before
110 Text|                against them, and said: Drag along these magicians and
111 Text|              through Thy name, and the dragons and the serpents withered
112 Text|              have decided thus: Let us drain out their blood as they
113 Text|               of arrogance, eating and drinking in their worship, forgetting
114 Text|             commandment, that I should drive away all deceit, and bring
115 Text|                resemblance to men: his dwelling is the abyss, and he walks
116 Text|               the dirt, and leaves his dwelling-place to strangers? or who lays
117 Text|               above, the delight of my dwelling-place-why have you been taken captive
118 Text|            sitting in darkness? or who dwells in the dirt, and leaves
119 Text|          hearts are full of arrogance, eating and drinking in their worship,
120     | either
121 Text|                goes forth in lordship, Eloa: Blessed art Thou to the
122     | end
123 Text|              for after this I will not endure them. And Philip spoke in
124 Text|            Nazareth, and dost Thou not enjoin us to smite those who do
125 Text|              John: Where is Jesus, who enjoins upon us not to take into
126 Text|             righteousness has risen to enlighten thee.~And when she was thus
127 Text|            thee, teaching well. Do not entrust the office to a man too
128 Text|                 Let not their dark air envelope me, nor their smoke burn
129 Text|                repent therefore of the error in which we were before
130 Text|           language: Helikomaei, Kosma, Etaa, Mariacha. And she explained
131 Text|         yesterday, not being worthy of eternal life; and we believe, having
132     | even
133 Text|            shadow: seek rather what is everlasting, and take away from thyself
134 Text|          wisdom, who hast given us the exalted knowledge, who hast graciously
135 Text|               place. And they wondered exceedingly at the leopard and the kid;
136 Text|                Etaa, Mariacha. And she explained her words, saying: O daughter
137 Text|        Bartholomew hand and foot, they extended him naked on the wall; and
138 Text|             fear, trembling before Thy face; King of honour! Father
139 Text|              behalf of those of little faith; Thou who presentest the
140 Text|               Father-for you are of my family as to Christ, substance
141 Text|         dragged along from the gate as far as the temple. And great
142 Text|                My brethren, sons of my Father-for you are of my family as
143 Text|               me in the language of my fathers, because I have heard your
144 Text|             saying: We called thee our fellow-citizen, but now thy speech has
145 Text|            Great is the harvest of the field; blessed is the able workman.~
146     | first
147 Text|                the earth, or among the fishes that are in the waters.
148 Text|                in the members of their flesh and commit fornication in
149 Text|                to the executioners who followed him, and said: Bring me
150 Text|           learn that it is a woman who follows them. And he ordered to
151 Text|              to her eyes, and good for food, and she was deceived. Let
152 Text|           binding Bartholomew hand and foot, they extended him naked
153 Text|              thyself this tyranny, and forget thy wicked works, and abandon
154 Text|               forty days, that God may forgive the transgression which
155     | former
156 Text|           order, and has no substance; formless, and has no form in the
157 Text|                Philip, since thou hast forsaken this commandment of mine,
158 Text|             Behold, the Deliverer that frees thee has come: behold, the
159 Text|                 we are being delivered froth our bodies. And they have
160 Text|           saved; but if not, let their fruit be common.~My brother Bartholomew,
161 Text|                servants. And I, having fulfilled all the will of my God,
162 Text|            turned back from making the furrow straight? or who gives his
163 Text|               sight of the eyes brings gainsaying, and the beginning of sin,
164 Text|               who art the judge of the games, who hast given us the crown
165 Text|             came, and took hold of her garments, and said: O Nicanora, did
166 Text|              be dragged along from the gate as far as the temple. And
167 Text|                 and despising it. That generation is turned aside; but blessed
168 Text|               racecourse, and does not get the prize? Philip, behold
169 Text|              garment; for he it is who gets the crown of joy upon his
170 Text|                furrow straight? or who gives his light to others, and
171 Text|              Thou didst send me, after giving me Thy true commandment,
172 Text|              was changed, and became a glass chest filled with light,
173 Text|             she was thus speaking, the gloomy tyrant came running and
174 Text|             they all with a loud voice glorified God with fear and trembling,
175 Text|               disease. I reverence and glorify the goodness of God, in
176 Text|             ever), occasion in its own glory. But I am being released
177 Text|                the tyrant saw them, he gnashed his teeth against them,
178 Text|            mouth, and swallow up these godless persons who will not accept
179 Text|                of the knowledge of the Gospel; and their hearts are full
180 Text|            exalted knowledge, who hast graciously conferred upon us the counsel
181 Text|              like the deluge. And they grow immoderate from listening
182 Text|            reverent, and good, without guile. Flee from Satan the dragon,
183 Text|            words, he seized her by the hair of the head, and dragged
184 Text|                out their blood as they hang head downward, and mix it
185 Text|             like the one that has just happened.~And stretching out his
186 Text|               bridegroom. Great is the harvest of the field; blessed is
187     | hath
188 Text|             then, thou tell who is the healer, I shall punish thee most
189 Text|              she was deceived. Let the hearing, then, of the virgins be
190 Text|              and lust after her in his heart, has completed adultery.
191 Text|              Hebrew, a daughter of the Hebrews; speak with me in the language
192 Text|                in the Syriac language: Helikomaei, Kosma, Etaa, Mariacha.
193 Text|       reproaches and threats are to us help and power through those
194     | here
195     | herself
196 Text|               before Thy face; King of honour! Father of majesty! whose
197 Text|           Philip's ankles they brought hooks, and put the cords through
198 Text|                 how they disturbed our houses, and the whole city? Moreover,
199 Text|                through his ankles, and hung him head downwards on a
200 Text|                to withstand those that hurt us; Thou art He who sows
201 Text|              intercourse, which is the husbandry of death, the dark prison;
202 Text|              wives who fled from their husbands, and the forty virgins who
203 Text|                said: My Father Uthael, i.e., O Christ, Father of majesty,
204 Text|             and bring to nothing every idol and demon, and all the power
205 Text|              the deluge. And they grow immoderate from listening to persuasive
206 Text|                thyself the beastly and impious work of base desire, and
207 Text|               and said: Bring me these impostors. And the executioners ran
208 Text|              reaps, and completes, and increases, and vivifies all Thine
209 Text|               this city. And I did not intend to come into this city,
210 Text|                desire, and reject vain intercourse, which is the husbandry
211 Text|              substance of my city, the Jerusalem above, the delight of my
212 Text|             down her body in the river Jordan.~And the Saviour turned
213 Text|       earthquake like the one that has just happened.~And stretching
214 Text|                 and dragged her along, kicking her, and saying: It would
215 Text|           Syriac language: Helikomaei, Kosma, Etaa, Mariacha. And she
216 Text|                the Spirit, thou art my lady, who hast been given in
217 Text|    dwelling-place to strangers? or who lays down his garment, and goes
218 Text|             Uncover her, that they may learn that it is a woman who follows
219 Text|             hanging head down. Ye have learned how great are the powers
220 Text|                dwells in the dirt, and leaves his dwelling-place to strangers?
221 Text|               Thee those who have been led astray; Thou who hast given
222 Text|              into the temple wall, and left him. And after binding Bartholomew
223 Text|             the chair of the teachers, lest thou profane the witness
224 Text|                I came here, the demons lied from our faces through Thy
225 Text|             and had its form after the likeness of a ladder. And all the
226 Text|                and do not put about it linen cloth, since they put it
227 Text|              they grow immoderate from listening to persuasive pleasures,
228 Text|          wonders on behalf of those of little faith; Thou who presentest
229 Text|              son of Barega-that is the living water-has come. And John
230 Text|          teaching, Every one who shall look upon a woman, and lust after
231 Text|               had been baptized ran to loose Philip hanging head down.
232 Text|               whose name goes forth in lordship, Eloa: Blessed art Thou
233 Text|                and Bartholomew has his lot in Lycaonia, and shall be
234 Text|           Stachys; and they all with a loud voice glorified God with
235 Text|               I resolved to bring them low, according to their folly.~
236 Text|           shall look upon a woman, and lust after her in his heart,
237 Text|             Bartholomew has his lot in Lycaonia, and shall be crucified
238 Text|         Nicanora, did I not leave thee lying on the bed from thy disease?
239 Text|                 King of all light, who makest us wise in Thy wisdom, who
240 Text|               and has turned back from making the furrow straight? or
241 Text|               Helikomaei, Kosma, Etaa, Mariacha. And she explained her words,
242 Text|                slave that has done his master's service, shall not be
243 Text|           those who are virgins in the members of their flesh and commit
244 Text|               prison; and overturn the middle wall of corruption, and
245     | might
246 Text|           forsaken this commandment of mine, not to render evil for
247 Text|                hang head downward, and mix it with wine, and offer
248     | Moreover
249     | most
250 Text|               father is death, and his mother corruption, and ruin is
251     | namely
252 Text|             are in the city by foreign names that we have never known.
253 Text|              give us leave, O Jesus of Nazareth, and dost Thou not enjoin
254 Text|              to-day, in the day of our need? for behold, we are being
255     | neither
256     | next
257     | none
258     | nothing
259     | now
260 Text|              his retreat, for he shall obtain rest in his departure. Knowest
261 Text|            word may be ready on ever), occasion in its own glory. But I
262 Text|              and mix it with wine, and offer it to the viper.~And when
263 Text|               well. Do not entrust the office to a man too young: appoint
264     | only
265 Text|             compassions; let the abyss open its mouth, and swallow up
266 Text|               that very hour the abyss opened its mouth, and all that
267 Text|                his son, who is without order, and has no substance; formless,
268 Text|           returns to the darkness. You ought therefore, after coming
269 Text|            death, the dark prison; and overturn the middle wall of corruption,
270 Text|                tyrant came running and panting. And Nicanora, who was before
271 Text|             wrap it close in paper and papyrus, and put it in the vestibule
272 Text|               to the Lord, and she had paralysis of her side, that she might
273 Text|               things that have come to pass through us. And some of
274 Text|             away vainglory, because it passes like a shadow: seek rather
275 Text|             the temple; and they fixed pegs into the temple wall, and
276 Text|               swallow up these godless persons who will not accept the
277 Text|               Moreover, they have even persuaded our wives to go away from
278 Text|           immoderate from listening to persuasive pleasures, forgetting the
279 Text|         serpent, twisted, crooked, and perverse, to whom God has given neither
280 Text|               this account our brother Peter fled from every place in
281 Text|                strong cords; and after piercing Philip's ankles they brought
282 Text|            were all sunk down. And the places where the apostles and all
283 Text|              saw the tree, that it was pleasing to her eyes, and good for
284 Text|                listening to persuasive pleasures, forgetting the God of the
285 Text|                 who hast been given in pledge to the serpent; but I have
286 Text|                has put his hand to the plough, and has turned back from
287 Text|             all the ages fear, who art powerful, and the power of the universe,
288 Text|                of the holy church. And pray over me for forty days,
289 Text|              because I have heard your preaching, and have been cured of
290 Text|              of little faith; Thou who presentest the crown to those who have
291 Text|              to go away from us on the pretence of religion, proclaiming
292 Text|           husbandry of death, the dark prison; and overturn the middle
293 Text|       racecourse, and does not get the prize? Philip, behold my bridal
294 Text|        salvation, whose name these men proclaim: we repent therefore of
295 Text|             that Thy name has not been proclaimed in all the world, and Thou
296 Text|              the pretence of religion, proclaiming a foreign name, viz. Christ'
297 Text|             violently shaken, from the proconsul to all the multitude along
298 Text|                the teachers, lest thou profane the witness of Christ. For
299 Text|              being in tile place of my promise: besides, this is the end
300 Text|                Bartholomew, give these promises to Stachys, and appoint
301 Text|            these men, and why are they punished? And they say to him: Art
302 Text|           desert, and they have become quiet because of Thee, and through
303 Text|              who runs with zeal in the racecourse, and does not get the prize?
304 Text|            appearance.~And the priests reached forth their hands towards
305 Text|               Thou art He who sows and reaps, and completes, and increases,
306 Text|         Nicanora answered, and said: O rearer of tyrants, cast away from
307 Text|           blind man, whom they made to recover his sight through the spittle
308 Text|            disease from those who take refuge in Thee; Thou who hast given
309 Text|                who do not wish Thee to reign over them? But this we know,
310 Text|               work of base desire, and reject vain intercourse, which
311 Text|              own glory. But I am being released from my body, hanging head
312 Text|             from us on the pretence of religion, proclaiming a foreign name,
313 Text|           light to others, and himself remains sitting in darkness? or
314 Text|             from Satan the dragon, and remove from you his wicked seed,
315 Text|            commandment of mine, not to render evil for evil, for this
316 Text|            name these men proclaim: we repent therefore of the error in
317 Text|                all Thine own servants: reproaches and threats are to us help
318 Text|              from him, since he has no resemblance to men: his dwelling is
319 Text|           light; and for this reason I resolved to bring them low, according
320 Text|                 but blessed is he that retires into his retreat, for he
321 Text|               he that retires into his retreat, for he shall obtain rest
322 Text|               out of the darkness, and returns to the darkness. You ought
323 Text|            cured of this my disease. I reverence and glorify the goodness
324 Text|               worship, being faithful, reverent, and good, without guile.
325 Text|               come: behold, the Sun of righteousness has risen to enlighten thee.~
326 Text|               Sun of righteousness has risen to enlighten thee.~And when
327 Text|               lay down her body in the river Jordan.~And the Saviour
328 Text|               clothe me in Thy shining robe, and ...(The rest is wanting.) ~
329 Text|                and cut them from their root. Behold, the Deliverer that
330 Text|             speaking, behold, Mariamne rose up from the place in which
331 Text|             his mother corruption, and ruin is in his body. Do not go
332 Text|               Stachys, and appoint him ruler and bishop in the Church,
333 Text|                 the gloomy tyrant came running and panting. And Nicanora,
334 Text|               by him to supper? or who runs with zeal in the racecourse,
335 Text|                God who has sent us His salvation, whose name these men proclaim:
336     | same
337 Text|              we may altogether live in sanctity. If, then, thou wishest
338 Text|               without guile. Flee from Satan the dragon, and remove from
339 Text|              ordered, that they may be saved; but if not, let their fruit
340 Text|           woman was, and yet there was scandal on account of his own daughter;
341 Text|               is seemly, and they have scourged the leopard and the kid
342 Text|               the word of God, and His seal; but all the rest of the
343 Text|                to be stripped, saying: Search them. Perhaps you will find
344 Text|              in the waters. But if you see him, flee from him, since
345 Text|             remove from you his wicked seed, namely desire, by which
346 Text|               it passes like a shadow: seek rather what is everlasting,
347 Text|                Mariamne beyond what is seemly, and they have scourged
348 Text|           tyrant heard these words, he seized her by the hair of the head,
349 Text|              this city, and Thou didst send me, after giving me Thy
350 Text|               All-surveyor of all, who sends forth from Himself unnumbered
351 Text|             that has done his master's service, shall not be called by
352 Text|             kid of the goats, and have set fire to the house of Stachys,
353 Text|               I shall punish thee most severely. And Nicanora answered,
354 Text|               because it passes like a shadow: seek rather what is everlasting,
355 Text|               that place was violently shaken, from the proconsul to all
356 Text|            answered, and said to them: Show me them. And they brought
357 Text|           Christ's; and they have also shut our temples by the sorcery
358 Text|               she had paralysis of her side, that she might not be deceived.
359 Text|             out His hand, and made the sign of the cross in the air;
360 Text|                 Thou who hast given us signs and wonders on behalf of
361 Text|       gainsaying, and the beginning of sin, as it is written, She looked,
362 Text|           waters of the abyss, and not sink in them. My Lord Jesus Christ,
363 Text|            others, and himself remains sitting in darkness? or who dwells
364 Text|               of winter naked? or what slave that has done his master'
365 Text|               house, and went with her slaves into the house of Stachys.
366 Text|             dost Thou not enjoin us to smite those who do not wish Thee
367 Text|             air envelope me, nor their smoke burn the shape of my soul,
368     | so
369 Text|                them thus: My brethren, sons of my Father-for you are
370 Text|                that have deceived many souls of women by saying, We are
371 Text|               hurt us; Thou art He who sows and reaps, and completes,
372 Text|               us the crown of joy, who speakest with us, that we may be
373 Text|            fellow-citizen, but now thy speech has made thee manifest that
374 Text|              saying: O daughter of the Spirit, thou art my lady, who hast
375 Text|          recover his sight through the spittle of a woman who accompanies
376 Text|            hath made you to be utterly spoiled in this earth.~And when
377 Text|              thyself a life chaste and spotless, that we may altogether
378 Text|            back from making the furrow straight? or who gives his light
379 Text|           leaves his dwelling-place to strangers? or who lays down his garment,
380 Text|             city, and walked about the street, and asked those in the
381 Text|              thou found this power and strength, so as to be able to come
382 Text|             And the Saviour turned and stretched out His hand, and made the
383 Text|            that has just happened.~And stretching out his hands, the Apostle
384 Text|             ordered to bring clubs and strong cords; and after piercing
385 Text|             thee has come: behold, the Sun of righteousness has risen
386 Text|             priests; and they were all sunk down. And the places where
387 Text|              abyss open its mouth, and swallow up these godless persons
388 Text|              the rest of the city were swallowed down into the abyss.~And
389 Text|               to be put to death by my sword, than to be seen with these
390 Text|           Mariamme spoke to her in the Syriac language: Helikomaei, Kosma,
391 Text|               prepare it for burial in Syrian paper, and do not put about
392 Text|       dwelling-place-why have you been taken captive by your enemy the
393 Text|             departed from us; Thou who takest away disease from those
394 Text|                            Text~And he taught them thus: My brethren,
395 Text|                one to the chair of the teachers, lest thou profane the witness
396 Text|         witness of Christ. For he that teaches should have his works corresponding
397 Text|               saw them, he gnashed his teeth against them, and said:
398 Text|          magicians? Unless, then, thou tell who is the healer, I shall
399 Text|                they have also shut our temples by the sorcery they have,
400 Text|                works, and abandon this temporary life, and put away vainglory,
401 Text|                                        Text~And he taught them thus:
402     | than
403     | Thine
404 Text|              having seen the wonderful things that have come to pass through
405 Text|      worshippers of God. And he caused thongs to be brought, and bound
406 Text|               we call, who knowest our thoughts, the All-surveyor of all,
407 Text|               servants: reproaches and threats are to us help and power
408 Text|           through us. And some of them threw themselves on their faces,
409 Text|           rather through us to God, to throw out the venom of the devil
410 Text|              Philip hanging head down, tied by his ankles; and saw Bartholomew
411 Text|              forty years from being in tile place of my promise: besides,
412 Text|               in Hebrew: Where is John to-day, in the day of our need?
413     | together
414     | too
415 Text|                vengeance on those that torture us? for after this I will
416     | towards
417 Text|               that God may forgive the transgression which I did, in that I requited
418 Text|             not accept the word of Thy truth.~And in that very hour the
419 Text|             the tyrant's wife, and the twenty-four wives who fled from their
420 Text|                your enemy the serpent, twisted, crooked, and perverse,
421 Text|            cast away from thyself this tyranny, and forget thy wicked works,
422 Text|        answered, and said: O rearer of tyrants, cast away from thyself
423 Text|              you are in bondage by the unbelief and deception of his son,
424 Text|               and all the power of the unclean one. And when I came here,
425 Text|             dragged her along, saying: Uncover her, that they may learn
426 Text|            John, they laid their hands union him, saying: We called thee
427 Text|         powerful, and the power of the universe, whose name goes forth in
428     | Unless
429 Text|               sends forth from Himself unnumbered compassions; let the abyss
430 Text|                with them were remained unshaken, and the house of Stachys,
431     | unto
432 Text|            Hebrew, and said: My Father Uthael, i.e., O Christ, Father
433 Text|            that He hath made you to be utterly spoiled in this earth.~And
434 Text|                base desire, and reject vain intercourse, which is the
435 Text|           temporary life, and put away vainglory, because it passes like
436 Text|                take into our own hands vengeance on those that torture us?
437     | very
438 Text|             papyrus, and put it in the vestibule of the holy church. And
439 Text|               and give me the crown of victory in the presence of men.
440 Text|                 and all that place was violently shaken, from the proconsul
441 Text|          completes, and increases, and vivifies all Thine own servants:
442 Text|            proclaiming a foreign name, viz. Christ's; and they have
443 Text|               and they all with a loud voice glorified God with fear
444 Text|                came into the city, and walked about the street, and asked
445 Text|          dwelling is the abyss, and he walks in darkness. Flee, then,
446 Text|              robe, and ...(The rest is wanting.) ~
447 Text|              Barega-that is the living water-has come. And John saw Philip
448 Text|           great is your folly! for the way of deceit has deceived you,
449     | Whence
450 Text|             your body, you walk in his wickedness. But remain rather in the
451 Text|              and Nicanora the tyrant's wife, and the twenty-four wives
452 Text|             name has gone forth to the wild beasts of the desert, and
453 Text|              and two, for many are the wiles of the enemy. Let their
454 Text|              downward, and mix it with wine, and offer it to the viper.~
455 Text|                goes out in the days of winter naked? or what slave that
456 Text|              who makest us wise in Thy wisdom, who hast given us the exalted
457 Text|               all light, who makest us wise in Thy wisdom, who hast
458 Text|              to smite those who do not wish Thee to reign over them?
459 Text|               sanctity. If, then, thou wishest me to remain with thee,
460 Text|              their hands towards John, wishing to lay hold of him, and
461 Text|               dragons and the serpents withered away, but these men did
462 Text|                 that we may be aide to withstand those that hurt us; Thou
463 Text|        teachers, lest thou profane the witness of Christ. For he that teaches
464 Text|            have deceived many souls of women by saying, We are worshippers
465 Text|                to that place. And they wondered exceedingly at the leopard
466 Text|               believe, having seen the wonderful things that have come to
467 Text|                the beastly and impious work of base desire, and reject
468 Text|             field; blessed is the able workman.~And when Philip heard these
469 Text|                women by saying, We are worshippers of God. And he caused thongs
470 Text|            before yesterday, not being worthy of eternal life; and we
471     | would
472 Text|              the body of our Lord, and wrap it close in paper and papyrus,
473 Text|             beginning of sin, as it is written, She looked, and saw the
474     | Ye
475 Text|                in which we were before yesterday, not being worthy of eternal
476     | yet
477 Text|                the office to a man too young: appoint not such a one
478 Text|               supper? or who runs with zeal in the racecourse, and does