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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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288 THE ACTS OF JUDAS THOMAS. “¢ Jesus then will be a Supporter unto thee.” And she was running and coming before them. And when they entered into the house of Vizan, the son of king Mazdai, the time was night, and our Lord was giving them light in abundance. And Judas began to pray and to speak thus: ‘Com- panion and Help of the feeble; Hope and Confidence of the poor; Refuge and Rest of the weary; Voice that came from on high, comforting the hearts of Thy be- lievers ; Resort and Haven of those that go forth into the region of darkness; Physician without, fee, (who) wast crucified among men …
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- Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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- Public domain
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- eng
- Source language
- eng
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- 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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