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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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THE ACTS OF JUDAS THOMAS. 259 sign, and gained to thyself thy life for ever and ever.” And a voice was heard from Heaven, which said, ‘ Yea, Amen and Amen.” And when Narkia heard this voice, she was amazed, and she too begged of the Apostle that she also might receive the sign; and he gave (it) to her and said: ‘‘ May the grace of Jesus be with thee as with the rest of thy companions.” And he went to be shut up in prison, and found the doors open and the watch- men asleep. And Judas said: “Who is like unto Thee, O God, who dost not withhold Thy love and mercy from man? Who is like unto Thee in…
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- Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
- Completeness
- Complete identified historical English Acts of Judas Thomas section in Wright volume II, printed pp.146–298 / physical objects172–324. Source order, hymns, notes and uncertain readings preserved. No claim of all Syriac manuscript variants. 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 historical English Acts of Judas Thomas section in Wright volume II, printed pp.146–298 / physical objects172–324. Source order, hymns, notes and uncertain readings preserved. No claim of all Syriac manuscript variants. Empty scan pages, if any, have no reading passage; original raw artifacts preserve them: [].
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