Acts of Paul and Thecla

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THE HISTORY OF THECLA, THE DISCIPLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE.® ‘Wuen Paul had gone up to the city of Iconium after his persecution, there accompanied him Demas and Hermo- genes, the coppersmiths, who were full of sedition and spake big words. And they were conversing with Paul as though with their friend ; but Paul was looking to the dwelling-place’ of the grace of the Messiah,* and was not doing unto them any harm, but was loving them truly. And he was so loving them, that he was making all the words (\ao) of the Lord, and of the teaching and preaching and the birth and the resurrection of the Beloved, sink into their souls through the great (doings)? of the Messiah. And he showed them how they were revealed to him, and was narrating (them) unto them by _ word (of mouth).° And a man, whose name was Onesiphorus, heard that Paul had come to the city of Iconium, and went out,‘ ® See the Syriac text, p. sada, and Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. xvi., p. 279. b droBdéruv eis pévyv Tv 4 ܗܘܘ‎ Tov xpworov. The translator seems to have confounded pdimy with povnv, and to have read cis riv povyv ris ܗܘܘ‎ 7. x. ¢ Dp. of God. ܕ‎ B.C. D. through the might. ° B.C. revealed to him by word, and was narrating (them) unto them. Here the text of B. ends.