Acta Joannis, Acta Joannis, ed. Maximilian Bonnet, 21

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21 Καὶ ἔτι πλείονα λέγων ὁ Λυκομήδης πρὸς τὴν Κλεοπάτραν προσελθὼν τῇ κλίνῃ ἀναβοῶν ἐθρήνει. ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης
ἀπέσπασεν αὐτὸν εἰπών· Μετάστηθι τῶν θρήνων τούτων καὶ τῶν ἀναρμόστων σου ῥημάτων. οὐ προσήκει ἀπεισθῆναι τῷ θεωμένῳ σοι. ἵστη γὰρ ἀπολαμβάνων τὴν αὐτοῦ σύμβιον. σὺν ἡμῖν τοίνυν στὰς τοῖς διὰ ταύτην ἐληλυθόσιν ἔπευξαι τῷ θεῷ ὃν εἶδες φανεροῦντά σε διʼ ὀνειράτων. τί
οὖν ἐστιν ὦ Λυκόμηδες; διυπνίσθητι καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ ἄνοιξόν σου τὴν ψυχήν. ἀπόβαλε τὸν πολὺν ὕπνον ἀπὸ σοῦ. δεήθητι τοῦ κυρίου, παρακάλεσον αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς συμβίου σου καὶ ἀναστήσῃ. Ὃ δὲ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐδάφους ἐθρήνει ὁλοψυχῶν. ὁ οὖν Ἰωάννης ἔφη μετὰ δακρύων· Ὢ καιυῆς προδοσίας ὁράματος·
ὢ καινοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐμοῦ κατασκευασθέντος· ὢ καινῆς τέχνης τοῦ κατʼ ἐμοῦ τεχνασαμένου. ἡ ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ φωνὴ ἐνεχθεῖσά μοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ταῦτά μοι ἐπραγματεύσατο; ταῦτά μοι προεδήλωσε τὰ μέλλσντα γενέσθαι ἐνθάδε; παραδιδούς με ὄχλῳ τοσούτῳ τῶν πολιτῶν ἕνεκεν Λυκομήδους; ὁ ἀνὴρ
ἄπνους κεῖται, κἀμὲ εὖ οἶδα ὅτι ζῶντα τῆς οἰκίας οὐκ ἐάσει με ἐξελθεῖν. τί μέλλεις κύριε; τί σου τὸ χρηστὸν ἐπάγγελμα ἀποκέκλῃκας ἡμῖν; μή, δέομαί σου κύριε, μὴ δῷς χορεῦσαι τῷ ¹ ἐπʼ ἀλλοτρίοις κακοῖς ἡδομένῳ· μὴ δῷς τούτῳ ὀρχεῖσθαι τῷ καταγγέλοντι ἡμῶν ἀεί. ἀλλά σου τὸ ἅγιον ὄνομα καὶ τὸ ἕλεος σπευσάτω. ἀνέγειρον πτώματα δύο κατʼ ἐμοῦ γεγενημένα.

Acta Joannis. Acta Joannis. ed. Maximilian Bonnet. United States. 2018.

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Acta Joannis (Greek) (Acta Joannis. Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha, Part 2, Vol. 1. Bonnet, Maximilian, editor. Leipzig: H. Mendelssohn, 1898.)

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Acts of John First1KGreek (Acts of John. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. James, Montague Rhodes, translator. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 21 focus

[21] And with yet more words Lycomedes addressing Cleopatra came near to the bed and cried aloud and lamented: but John pulled him away, and said: Cease from these lamentations and from thine unfitting words: thou must not disobey him that (?) appeared unto thee: for know that thou shalt receive thy consort again. Stand, therefore, with us that have come hither on her account and pray to the God whom thou sawest manifesting himself unto thee in dreams. What, then, is it, Lycomedes? Awake, thou also, and open thy soul. Cast off the heavy sleep from thee: beseech the Lord, entreat him for thy wife, and he will raise her up. But he fell upon the floor and lamented, fainting.¹

John therefore said with tears: Alas for the fresh (new) betraying of my vision! for the new temptation that is prepared for me! for the new device of him that contriveth against me! the voice from heaven that was borne unto me in the way, hath it devised this for me? was it this that it foreshowed me should come to pass here, betraying me to this great multitude of the citizens because of Lycomedes? the man lieth without breath, and I know well that they will not suffer me to go out of the house alive. Why tarriest thou, Lord (or, what wilt thou do)? why hast thou shut off from us thy good promise? Do not, I beseech thee, Lord, do not give him cause to exult who rejoiceth in the suffering of others; give him not cause to dance who alway derideth us; but let thy holy name and thy mercy make haste. Raise up these two dead whose death is against me.

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1. 1 εἴ R ‖ scr τύχην τοιαύτην? ‖ ἴδ.] ἡδὺ μὴ R ‖ 2 Κλεοπάτραν(?) εὐλα- βουμένῳ μοι? ‖ 4 scr Κλεοπάτρα (uoc casu ut 5; 2?) ‖ περὶ πολλῶν R ‖ 5 scr σοι μ. προσομιλοῦντα? σοῦ μ. προσομιλούσης? cf 161, 14 ‖ 7 scr μου? ‖ 8 ἐξ ὧν R ‖ scr πρὸς ‖ 10 scr με τὸ φ. ἐβ. ⟨καταλιπεῖν⟩? ‖ 16 scr ἀπειθῆσαι ? ‖ 17 θεομένω R unde δεομένῳ (sequente σου) effeceram: sed cf 161, 16 ‖ scr ἴσθι ?? ἔσῃ? (ἵστη? ἵστι? R) ‖ scr ἑαυτοῦ? ‖ 19 scr σοι ⟨ἑαυτὸν⟩? cf 161, 22 ‖ 23 scr ἀναστήσει (scil αὐτήν)? ἀναστῇ?? ‖ ὀλιγοψυχῶν Ιαμεσ optime ‖ 25 scr ἐμοὶ? ⟨κατ᾿⟩ ἐμοῦ? cf 26; 163,3 ‖ 26 ⟨τοιαῦτα⟩ τεχνασαμένου? ‖ 26 scr παραδιδοῖς? ‖ 30 scr ἐάσουσιν??? ‖ 31 del με?? cf 168, 12 et 15 ‖ 32 scr ἡμῶν ?

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