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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[2397] Abdias: Thomas stood in the prison, and said: Lord Jesus, who didst endure very much for us, let the gates be shut as they were before, and the seals be made again on the same doors.
[2398] Abdias gives an account of the king going to the prison, and disbelieving the report of the warders, because he found the seals on the doors as he had left them.
[2399] The not should, by the context, be omitted. [So Pseudo-Abdias.—R.]
[2400] Reading ἠπείχθην for ἀπήχθην.
[2401] i.e., I will so act.
[2402] Lit., polemarchs, who in the early times of Athens combined the duties of Foreign Secretary and War Secretary, and sometimes took the command in the field.
[2403] Abdias: The apostle said that great and divine mysteries were revealed in his death, since he was led by four soldiers, because he consisted of four elements; and the Lord Jesus had been struck by one man, because He knew that one Father had begotten Him.
[2404] Lit., the servants of the order.
[2405] The husband of Mygdonia.
[2406] These names are slightly different in form in this paragraph.
[2407] These names are slightly different in form in this paragraph.
[2408] Abdias: and buried them in the city of Edessa. [The translator cites the readings of Pseudo-Abdias, as given by Tischendorf (from Fabricius), as those of “Abdias.” The same form of citation appears in the footnotes to the Martyrdom of Bartholomew, pp. 553–557.—R.]
Martyrdom of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew.
[2409] The history of Abdias gives the name as Berith, after Judg. ix. 46.
[2410] Lit., white flesh.
[2411] Pseudo-Abdias says: a hundred times.
[2412] Pseudo-Abdias says: a hundred times.
[2413] Abdias calls him Pseustius.
[2414] Or, prayed a prayer.
[2415] Comp. Luke i. 26-38. Abdias goes on: He then, after His birth, suffered Himself to be tempted by that devil who had overcome the first man, persuading him to eat of the tree forbidden by God.
[2416] Comp. Luke iv. 1-13.
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