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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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184 ‘THE HISTORY OF THECLA. daughter, that she may live; for thus I saw in my dream.” And at that moment Thecla arose, and lifted up her voice,* and said: ‘“‘God, who art in Heaven, the Father of the Most High, grant to queen Trypheena, according to her wish, that her daughter may live for ever.” And when the queen heard these things, she sat in mourning, and was weeping and saying: “ This beauty of thine, Thecla, te-morrow again the beasts will devour it.” | And when it was dawn, Alexander ran‘ (and) came (ܩܢܕ) to lead Thecla away, because he was giving the (exhibition of) beasts‘ to the cit…
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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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