Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature

of the Word; then shalt thou perceive the Lord, and in the third place the man, and what he hath suffered. 102 When he had spoke ...

gathered together the fragments of the gems, and holding them in his hands, lifted up his eyes to heaven and said: Lord Jesu Chr ...

souls, that they may believe that they shall have eternal riches, who for his name's sake have refused temporal wealth. Indeed, ...

But wretched and unhappy is the man who would have something more than sufficeth him: for of this come heats of fevers rigours o ...

forgive a man, how much more shall he, as he is God, both forgive and spare men. We are confounded for our sin: and whereas we h ...

and all roots hurtful to the health of men dry up.] Do thou, I say, quench the venom of this poison, put out the deadly workings ...

[James gives two additional fragments that do not fit in any other place. These fragments are very broken and are not of much us ...

glorify the name of Father that was said by thee... the name of Son that was said by thee): we glorify thine entering of the Doo ...

years didst blind me (or afflict mine eyes), and grant me to mourn and entreat thee: who in the third year didst open the eyes o ...

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY Acts of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian ABOUT HIS EXILE AND DEPARTURE. WHEN Agri ...

answered and said: I am he. And they, despising his common, and low, and poor appearance, were filled with threats, and said: Te ...

and salvation, for the healing of soul and body, for digestion and harmless assimilation, for faith not to be repented of, for a ...

And what like his end was, or his departure from men, who cannot give an account of? For on the following day, which was the Lor ...

And having broken the bread, he gave it to us, praying for each of the brethren, that he might be worthy of the Eucharist of the ...

Gehenna be extinguished, let the angels follow, let the demons be afraid let the princes be broken in pieces, let the powers of ...

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY The Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle ABOUT that time Matthew, the holy apostle and evan ...

offerings, and they shall bake their bread with fire; and they shall see each other in the likeness of the rest of men, and they ...

that they were naked; and they ran in haste each to his own house to cover their nakedness, because they were ashamed. And Matth ...

to me, I shall burn you alive with fire; and the punishment which he is to undergo, you shall endure. And the soldiers, having b ...

dawn, and went into the church, with only two soldiers without arms, to take Matthew by craft, that he might kill him. And havin ...