Acts of Andrew and Matthias 1:1
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Work: Acts of Andrew and Matthias
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Acts of Andrew and Matthias — ANF VIII English translation (A. Walker)
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About that time all the apostles had come together to the same place, and shared among themselves the countries, casting lots, in order that each might go away into the part that had fallen to him. By lot, then, it fell to Matthias to set out to the country of the man-eaters. And the men of that city used neither to eat bread nor drink wine; but they ate the flesh of men, and drank their blood. Every man, therefore, who came into their city they laid hold of, and digging they thrust out his eyes, and gave him a drug to drink, prepared by sorcery and magic; and from drinking the drug his heart …
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- Acts of Andrew and Matthias — ANF VIII English translation (A. Walker)
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