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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[2336] Or, Eucharist.
[2337] i.e., by it.
[2338] One ms. for this whole section has: The two brothers having been set apart by the apostle, said to him, Give us the seal in Christ. And he ordered them to bring him oil. And ends the history thus: And he arose, and sealed them in the name of Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, and baptized them. And the Lord was revealed to them, through a voice saying to them, peace unto you! And the apostle sealed also all that were with them. And they all believed in our Lord Jesus Christ: and the whole of India became believing.
The last sentence in the text seems to be an interpolation. The oil was not for the lamps, but for the ceremony of baptism. The practice of baptizing with oil instead of water—one of the “notable and execrable” heresies of the Manichæans—is said to have been founded on this passage.
[2339] Lit., the sealing up.
[2340] Lit., the administration.
[2341] Perhaps for προσβολῇ we should read προβολῇ, projection or emanation.
[2342] Or, communicants of the Eucharist.
[2343] Or, arising from the things of the body.
[2344] Comp.Matt. vi. 34.
[2346] Or, announcement.
[2348] Lit., master of the debt.
[2349] i.e., be.
[2350] In this passage we have one of the data for fixing the date of the writing.
[2351] Or, from those to whom he was lent.
[2352] And, by implication, gigantic.
[2353] Or, by them.
[2356] Rom. xiii. 13; Luke xii. 34.
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