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Work: Acts of Paul and Thecla
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Acts of Paul and Thecla — Wright 1871 English, OCR
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] Cn Ce 130 THE HISTORY OF THECLA. answered and said: ‘God, ܩܡܚ) ( the Searcher of hearts, the Father of our Lord* Jesus the Messiah, I praise Thee because what I‘asked of Thee Thou hast rescued from the fire, and hast granted me to see Thecla,” me and these persons who are with me; and in Thy hands‘ it is an easy thing to deliver from all distress one who praises Thy name for ever.” And Paul was glad and rejoicing with those persons who were with him. And the boy had brought them five loaves of bread, and herbs and water and salt ;* and they were rejoicing in the pure works of the Messiah. A…
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- Acts of Paul and Thecla — Wright 1871 English, OCR
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- Complete identified History of Thecla, Disciple of Paul section in Wright volume II, printed pp.116–145 / physical objects142–171. This is the historical English translation of its Syriac witness; source readings and notes preserved, without harmonization to Greek or other editions. Empty scan pages, if any, have no reading passage; original raw artifacts preserve them: []. Uncorrected source OCR may contain spelling, glyph and line-order errors. Reader navigation uses physical source pages, not reconstructed historical chapters.
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Recorded provenance: Source.raw is the exact retained upstream DjVu XML artifact, not a synthesized source. Reading body extracts its original WORD text in LINE order, joined with LF. Selected physical object order and textual boundaries identify this source section; raw full TXT/XML retained. No words, historical uncertainty or OCR errors silently corrected. Complete identified History of Thecla, Disciple of Paul section in Wright volume II, printed pp.116–145 / physical objects142–171. This is the historical English translation of its Syriac witness; source readings and notes preserved, without harmonization to Greek or other editions. Empty scan pages, if any, have no reading passage; original raw artifacts preserve them: [].
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