Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature

without grief or anxiety, looking to receive that incorruptible and true marriage, and ye shall be therein groomsmen entering in ...

because he had not taken her with him. And when they told her the matter that had befallen with the young people she was exceedi ...

saying: This hath the Lord dispensed unto you, and he giveth unto every man his food: for he is the nourisher of orphans and ste ...

go to my brother, that I may buy this palace of him, for my brother knoweth not of what sort it is, and he will sell it unto me. ...

grounded in thy mysteries and receive the perfect good of thy graces and gifts, and flourish in thy ministry and come to perfect ...

impediment to the life (conversation) of the body, turning the whole man unto weakness and casting the whole body into sickness. ...

tale was composed though our present text, which rests here on two manuscripts, has now and then been bowdlerized in the directi ...

certain beautiful woman in this village over against us; and as she passed by me (or my place) I saw her and was enamoured of he ...

34 But the youth said unto the apostle with many tears: Wherein have I sinned against thee? for thou art a man that hast two for ...

houses of kings. And if of costly banquets, concerning these we have received a commandment to beware of them, not to be weighed ...

39 And while the apostle yet stood in the highway and spake with the multitude, A she ass's colt came and stood before him (Syr. ...

gave him speech that he might talk was able to cause that he should not die; and I raise him not, not as being unable, but becau ...

What have we to do with thee, thou apostle of the Most High! What have we to do with thee, thou servant of Jesus Christ? What ha ...

thy gifts, having good hope in thy help, and having their refuge in thy greatness; they hold their hearing ready to listen unto ...

When, therefore, she consented not, I took a sword and slew her: for I could not endure to see her commit adultery with another ...

55 And the apostle said unto her: Relate unto us where thou hast been. And she answered: Dost thou who wast with me and unto who ...

therefore, and supplicate that I may not depart unto those places of punishment which I have seen. 58 And the apostle said: Ye h ...

joined unto thy kinship: look upon us, Lord, that have forsaken our fathers and mothers and fosters, that we might behold thy Fa ...

distressed: for the devils throw them down wheresoever they find them, and strip them naked. I beseech and supplicate thee befor ...

driver, saying: I entreat and pray that I may become worthy to sit beneath his feet, and I will be his driver upon this way, tha ...