Acts of Peter 2:2
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Work: Acts of Peter
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Acts of Peter (Vercelli Acts 1-29, Martyrdom 30-41, Coptic Act of Peter) — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
And directly Rufina collapsed, being paralyzed on the left side from head to foot. Nor could she speak any more, for her tongue was tied. When the old believers and neophytes saw this, they beat their breasts, remembering their former sins, lamented and said, “We know not whether God forgives us the former sins, which we have committed.”
- Source
- Acts of Peter (Vercelli Acts 1-29, Martyrdom 30-41, Coptic Act of Peter) — Bernhard Pick 1909 English translation
- Rights
- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- grc
- Completeness
- Vercelli Acts chapters 1-29 (chapter 7 not staged), Martyrdom chapters (Pick numbering 1-12 = Lipsius 30-41), and the Coptic "Deed of Peter" fragment.
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
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