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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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900 THE ACTS OF JUDAS THOMAS. “Thou art unable to name the deed, and how canst thou persuade me to do it? For I have heard thee say: ‘This temporal life (ܫܢ) is (but) a loan, and this rest is (but) temporary, and these possessions abide not.’ And again thou didst say: ‘ Whosoever hateth this life, shall go (and) receive life everlasting; and whosoever hateth this light of day and night, shall go (and) receive the light in which there is no night.’ And again thou didst say: ‘ Whosoever forsaketh these earthly posses- sions, shall go (and) find possessions that abide for ever;’ and other things…
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- Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- 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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