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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[2305] Ps. iii. 5 according to the LXX.
[2306] Or, of the Eucharist.
[2307] The meaning is not clear. The otherms. has: After one hour he sees in that place an image of a cross coming up from the depth of the sea. [The Viennams. varies more than this extract indicates.—R.]
[2308] The other [Vienna] ms. is much fuller here: And the cry of the multitude came to the king. And he asked: What is the uproar and shouting among the people? And he learned that Matthew’s coffin had come of itself. Then, filled with great joy, the king straightway goes to the coffin, crying out, and saying with a loud voice: The God of Matthew is the only God, and there is none other but Him. And he fell on his face near the coffin, saying: Pardon me, Lord Jesus Christ, for what I have done against this holy man, for I was in ignorance. And the bishop, seeing the repentance and tears of the king, gave him a hand, and raised him from the ground, and said to him: Rise up, and be of good courage; for the Lord God hath accepted thy repentance and conversion through the good offices of His servant and apostle Thomas. And the king rose up from the ground, and fell at the bishop’s feet, etc.—as in the text.
[2309] Wisdom.
[2310] Understanding.
[2311] The other [Vienna] ms. has: And likewise his wife and his daughter-in-law deaconesses.
[2312] The other [Paris]ms. ends differently: And there came a voice, Peace to you, and joy, for there shall not be war nor stroke of sword in this city, because of Matthew, mine elect, whom I have loved for ever. Blessed are they who observe his memory, for they shall be glorified to ages of ages.
And the day of his commemoration shall be the fourteenth of the month of Gorpiæus.* Glory, honour, and worship to God, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages. [The Paris ms. is usually followed by Tischendorf. But in the three concluding paragraphs, as given in the text above, he follows the Vienna ms.—R.]
*Gorpiæus was the eleventh month of the Macedonian year, and fell partly in August and partly in September.
Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas.
[2313] This list is a transcript of Matt. x. 2-4, except in the last name.
[2314] This double name is in accordance with a tradition preserved by Eusebius (H. E., i. 13), that the true name of Thomas was Judas.
[2315] Or, bill of sale.
[2316] Or, scales.
[2317] i.e., monuments.
[2318] Comp.Matt. xxii. 3-14.
[2319] Or, chin.
[2320] Or, cup-bearers.
[2321] Exod. 30.23; Song of Sol. 4.14; Ezek. 27.19.
[2322] Comp.Ps. xxiv. 7, according to the LXX.
[2323] Three of the fivemss. either omit the prayer altogether, or give it very briefly.
[2324] Or, couches.
[2325] The text of this exhortation also varies much in the four mss. which give it.
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