James1920 fragment dossier, printedpage 22
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Work: Prayer of Joseph
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Prayer of Joseph — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes
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22 THE LOST APOCRYPHA OF He is speaking of John the Baptist, and, says he : " It will not be out of place to add a notion of our own about him. When we read the prophecy of him, ' Behold, I send my angel before thy face,' etc., we reflected if by chance one of the holy angels being upon service were not sent down as a forerunner of our Saviour. It would not, indeed, be surprising if, when the firstborn of all creation became incarnate, for love of man, some should have become emulators and imitators of …
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- Prayer of Joseph — James 1920 preserved fragments and notes
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- Surviving Origen quotations and the complete James1920historical discussion, printed21–31. This is a fragment dossier, not the lost1100linecompletePrayer. Retains identification, uncertain allusions and differences between ancient quotations and James’s discussion. HistoricalEnglishwording, quoted source uncertainty, lacunae, Greek/LatinOCR and notes are retained without conjectural spelling repair. Exact chapter-boundary portions selected; no adjacent work is relabelled.
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Recorded provenance: Surviving Origen quotations and the complete James1920historical discussion, printed21–31. This is a fragment dossier, not the lost1100linecompletePrayer. Retains identification, uncertain allusions and differences between ancient quotations and James’s discussion. HistoricalEnglishwording, quoted source uncertainty, lacunae, Greek/LatinOCR and notes are retained without conjectural spelling repair. Exact chapter-boundary portions selected; no adjacent work is relabelled.
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