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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[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.
[2418] Lit., reigneth.
[2420] Or, unity.
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