Acts of Thomas 27:3
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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
And when they had been sealed, there appeared to them a young man holding a burning lamp, so that the (other) lamps were even darkened by the emanation of its light. And he went out, and disappeared from their sight. And the apostle said to the Lord, “Thy light is too great for us, Lord, and we cannot bear it. For it is too much for our sight.” And when light came, and it was dawn, he brake bread, and made them partakers of the eucharist of the Messiah. And they rejoiced and exulted. And many others also believed, and were added (to the believers), and came to the refuge of the Saviour.
- Source
- Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- grc
- Completeness
- Pick 1909 chapters 1-170 as supplied by the staged batches (148 paragraphs). Chapters not printed or not staged (e.g. 142-149) are absent; nothing is reconstructed. The shorter ANF VIII Acts of Thomas packet (anf_acts_thomas) was not used.
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
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