^[2012] Momordidit infernum, which is obviously corrupt. The translator may have read δέδηχε ᾅδην, bit Hades, for δέδειχε ᾅδην, brought Hades to light.

The Letter of Pontius Pilate, Which He Wrote to the Roman Emperor, Concerning Our Lord Jesus Christ.

^[2013] [Compare the translation of the letter of Pilate to Claudius, found in the Acts of Peter and Paul; also a similar letter incorporated in The Gospel of Nicodemus, second part, Latin, first version, chap. 13 (29), p. 454.—R.]

The Report of Pilate the Procurator Concerning Our Lord Jesus Christ. Sent to the August Cæsar in Rome: First Greek Form.

^[2014] Or, Augustus.

^[2015] Or, Augustus.

^[2016] Codex A has a better reading—arteries. [Thems. here referred to is in Paris, of the fourteenth century (a.d. 1315).—R.]

^[2017] The text here is very corrupt.

^[2018] Or, so men appeared on high.

^[2019] This sentence also is very corrupt.

^[2020] Another and more probably reading is, not one. [So B, a Parisms. of the fourteenth century.—R.]

The Report of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judæa, Sent to Rome to Tiberius Cæsar: Second Greek Form.

^[2021] This is a conjecture of Thilo’s. Themss. have Spania.

^[2022] Instead of this last sentence, one of the mss. has: And the whole world was shaken by unspeakable miracles, and all the creation was like to be swallowed up by the lower regions; so that also the sanctuary of their temple was rent from top to bottom. And again there was thunder, and a mighty noise from heaven, so that all our land shook and trembled. Another: And there began to be earthquakes in the hour in which the nails were fixed in Jesus’ hands and feet, until evening.

^[2023] One ms. adds: To the number of five hundred.

The Giving Up of Pontius Pilate.

^[2024] Or, in the entrance.

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