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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 (OR THE TWIN), THE APOSTLE. Tue (first) act of Judas Thomas the Apostle, when He sold* him to the merchant Habban, that he might go down (and) convert India.” AnD when all the Apostles had been for a time in Jerusalem, -— Simon Cephas and Andrew, and Jacob (James) and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, and Thomas and Matthew the publican, and Jacob (James) the son of Alphseus, and Simon the Kananite, and Judas the son of Jacob (James),"—they divided the countries among them, in order that each one of them might preach in the region which fell to him and in the place to …
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- Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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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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