Acts of Thomas 114:1
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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
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Charis went home rejoicing, believing that his wife would live with him again and be as she was before, ere she heard the divine word and believed in Jesus. Coming back, he found her hair cut off and her garment rent. Seeing her, he said to her, “My lady Mygdonia, why does this nauseous disease take possession of thee? And why hast thou done this? I am thy husband since the time of thy virginity, and the gods as well as the laws give me the right to rule over thee. What is this great madness of thine that makes thee ridiculous in the eyes of all the people? Put away the anxiety which comes fro…
- Source
- Acts of Thomas — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
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- 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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