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Work: Acts of Thomas
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Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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240 THE ACTS OF JUDAS THOMAS. Egypt, and my companions parted from me. 1 went straight to the serpent, I dwelt around his abode," (wait- ing) till he should slumber and sleep, and I could take my pearl from him. And when I was single and was alone (and) become strange to my family, one of my race, a free-born man, an Oriental, I saw there, a youth fair and loveable, the son of oil-sellers ;* and he came and attached himself to me, and I made him my | intimate friend, an associate with whom I shared my merchandise. 1 warned him against the Egyptians, and against consorting with the unclean; and…
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- Acts of Thomas — Wright 1871 English, retained OCR
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- 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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