Acts of Thomas 105:1
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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
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When Sifôr had spoken thus, King Misdai sent many soldiers into the house of Sifôr, the commander, to bring Thomas, and all those which should be found there. And when the messengers came into the house, they found him teaching a great multitude, and Mygdonia sitting at his feet. And when the messengers saw the multitude they were afraid, went to the king, and said, “We ventured not to say anything to him on account of the many people around him; Mygdonia also was listening to his words, sitting at his feet.” When the King Misdai and Charis heard these things, Charis started up, took many peop…
- 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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