The other, which begins "haper tois ophthalmois"(greek) has a number of insertions taken from
the original Acts, ultimately, perhaps through the medium of a 'Passion', circulated separately,
such as we have had in the cases of John, Paul, and Peter. This text is called by Flamion the
Epitre grecque. Ep. gr.
On pp. 38 - 45 follows the fragment of discourses which has just been translated. Very likely this
is a relic of a separate Passion cut off from the end of the original Acts.
On pp. 46 - 57 is the 'Martyrium prius'. This tells (after speaking of the dispersion of the apostles)
of the cure and conversion of Lesbius, destruction of temples, dismissal of Lesbius by Caesar,
vision of Andrew that Aegeates is to put him to death, arrest of Andrew, and martyrdom. It
contains many speeches. This is Mart. 1.
On pp. 58 - 64 is the 'Martyrium alterum' in two texts, which begins at once with the arrest of the
apostle by Aegeates- after he has spent the night in discoursing to the brethren.
Mart. II, A, B are the two texts of this. Besides these Bonnet has published in the Analecta
Bollandiana and separately (as Supplementum Codicis Apocryphi, ii, 1895 ) thc following
documents:
1 Acts of Andrew with Encomium: called for short Laudatio, which recounts the journeys at
considerable length, and some of thc miracles which we have seen in Gregory, and then the
Passion (cc. 44 - 9 ) and the Translation to Constantinople.
2. A Greek Martyrdom, of which cc. 1 - 8 recount the journeys, and from 9 onwards the Passion,
with a good deal of matter from the original Acts. This is called Narratio.
3. A Latin Passion- that known to Gregory, which begins Conversante et docente: it forms the
end of Book III of Abdias' Historia Apostolica, and is there tacked on to Gregory's book of
Miracles.
Using all these sources, Flamion has with great pains indicated which portions he assigns to the
original Acts, and I shall follow him here. The resultant text is a kind of mosaic, of which the
sources shall be indicated in the margin.
And after he had thus discoursed throughout the night to the brethren, and praved with them and
committed them unto the Lord, early in the morning Aegeates the proconsul sent for the apostle
Andrew out of the prison and said to him: The end of thy judgement is at hand, thou stranger,
enemy of this present life and foe of all mine house. Wherefore hast thou thought good to intrude
into places that are not thine, and to corrupt my wife who was of old obedient unto me? why hast
thou done this against me and against all Achaia? Therefore shalt thou receive from me a gift in
recompense of that thou hast wrought against me.
And he commanded him to be scourged by seven men and afterward to be crucified: and charged
the executioners that his legs should be left unpierccd, and so he should be hanged up: thinking
by this means to torment him the more.
Now the report was noised throughout all Patrae that the stranger, the righteous man, the servant
of Christ whom Aegeates held prisoner, was being crucified, having done nothing amiss: and
they ran together with one accord unto the sight, being wroth with the proconsul because of his
impious judgement.
And as the executioners led him unto the place to fulfil that which was commanded them,
Stratocles heard what was come to pass, and ran hastily and overtook them, and beheld the
blessed Andrew violently haled by the executioners like a malefactor. And he spared them not,
but beating every one of them soundly and tearing their coats from top to bottom, he caught
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