Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature

The whole city therefore came to see the wild asses under the yoke; and they had heard also the report of the apostle that he wa ...

devices? and as I take it, thou wouldest not suffer us to be upon the earth at all: but this at this time thou canst not accompl ...

life, and hast no thought of that which is eternal (Syr. when thou canst every day think on that which is eternal)? 79 But unto ...

Follow me. And they went after him until he had brought them without the gate. And when they had gone out, he said to them: Depa ...

holiness did appear from God, doing away fornication, overthrowing the enemy, well-pleasing unto God: for she is an invincible c ...

her own chamber to meet him as she was wont. And her handmaids said to him: She is not well. And he entered quickly into the cha ...

hast accounted worthy to become the dwelling-place of thy heavenly gift. And he said also to them that stood by: Blessed are the ...

Saviour Christ, do thou give me strength to overcome thc shamelessness of Charisius, and grant me to keep the holiness wherein t ...

101 And as Charisius thought on these things, the day dawned: and after the night (?) he put on a mean habit, and shod himself, ...

things: and here also many did hear the wild ass and concerning that devil whom he drove out, and healed my wife and daughter, a ...

[Here follows the Hymn of the Soul: a most remarkable composition, originally Syriac, and certainly older than the Acts, with wh ...

He came unto me and dwelt with me, and I had him for a companion, and made him my friend and partaker in my journey (or merchand ...

And I remembered forthwith that I was a son of kings, and my freedom yearned (sought) after its kind. I remembered also the pear ...

And all its royal motions rested upon me as it grew toward the impulse of it (And with its kingly motions it was spreading itsel ...

sacrifice to them, for I am bereaved of my spouse. And what else should I ask of them? for all my glory is taken away, yet am I ...

his goodness' sake. Rise up then from the earth, thou that art become wholly above it: look on the light, for the Lord leaveth n ...

123 But at the dawn Charisius went unto Mygdonia [AND Syr. nurse, her], and found them praying and saying: O new God that by the ...

him serve my God with much reverence and cleanness and security, and be quit of all pleasures of the body, adultery and prodigal ...

and this relief is for a time, and these possessions are transitory. And again thou saidst that whoso renounceth this life shall ...

malefactor, he would not have it. But do thou go and counsel her to incline unto her husband, and forsake the vain words of the ...