Acta Joannis, Acta Joannis, ed. Maximilian Bonnet, 23

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23 Καὶ προσελθών, ἁψάμενος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτῆς ἔφη· Κλεοπάτρα, λέγει ὃν ἐφοβήθη πᾶς ἄρχων καὶ πᾶσα κτίσις,
δύναμις, ἄβυσσός τε καὶ σκότος ἅπαν καὶ θάνατος ἀγέλαστος καὶ οὐρανῶν ὕψωμα καὶ ᾅδου κυκλώματα καὶ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασις καὶ πηρῶν ὄψις καὶ τοῦ κοσμοκράτορος ἅποσα ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἄρχοντος ὑπερηφανία· Ἀνάστηθι, καὶ μὴ γίνου πρόφασις πολλοῖς ἀπιστεῖν θέλουσι καὶ θλίψεις ψυχὰς
δυναμένας ἐλπίσαι καὶ σωθῆναι. Καὶ ἡ Κλεοπατρα εὐθέως μετὰ φωνῆς ἐβόησεν· Ἀνίσταμαι δέσποτα· σῷζε τὴν δούλην σου. ἀναστήσεις δέ μου δἰ ἡμερῶν ἑπτὰ ἡ πόλις Ἐφεσίων ἐκινεῖτο ἐπὶ τῷ παραδόξῳ θεεάματι. ἠρὠτα δὲ ἡ Κλεοπάτρα περὶ τοῦ ¹² ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς Λυκομήδους· ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης εἶπεν αὐτῇ· Κλεοπάτρα, ἀκίνητον ἔχουσα τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ ἀμετάτρεπτον αὐτόθεν ἕξεις Λυκομήδην τὸν σύμβιόν σου ἐνταῦθά σοι παρεστῶσα, εἴ γε μὴ ταράσσῃ μηδὲ κινῇ ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι, πιστεύσασα ἐπὶ
τῷ θεῷ μου, ὅστις διʼ ἐμοῦ ζῶντα αὐτὸν χαρίσεται. ἐλθὲ οὖν ἅμα ἐμοὶ εἰς τὸν ἕτερόν σου κοιτῶνα, καὶ θεάσῃ αὐτὸν νενεκρωμένον, ἀνιστάμενον δὲ τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ μου δυνάμει.

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

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Current edition First1KGreek

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.) — 23 focus

[23] And he came to her and touched her face and said: Cleopatra, He saith, whom every ruler feareth, and every creature and every power, the abyss and all darkness, and unsmiling death, and the height of heaven, and the circles of hell [and the resurrection of the dead, and the sight of the blind], and the whole power of the prince of this world, and the pride of the ruler: Arise, and be not an occasion unto many that desire not to believe, or an affliction unto souls that are able to hope and to be saved. And Cleopatra straightway cried with a loud voice: I arise, master: save thou thine handmaid.

Now when she had arisen ⟨who had lain incurable for› seven days, the city of the Ephesians was moved at the unlooked-for sight. And Cleopatra asked concerning her husband Lycomedes, but John said to her: Cleopatra, if thou keep thy soul unmoved and steadfast, thou shalt forthwith have Lycomedes thine husband standing here beside thee, if at least thou be not disturbed nor moved at that which hath befallen, having believed on my God, who by my means shall grant him unto thee alive. Come therefore with me into thine other bedchamber, and thou shalt behold him, a dead corpse indeed, but raised again by the power of my God.

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Acta Joannis

1. 14 Matth 7, 7

2. 2 scr καταγελῶντι? item Iames ‖ 9 scr ἰώμενε? (cf 206, 10) item Iames 10 scr ἐπάμυνον? ‖ 12 σοὶ R ‖ 16 κτίσιν R ‖ ὄντων ⟨καὶ⟩? ‖ 17 μέλλ.] μέλλεις πάντας Iames optime nisi forte μέλλ⟨εις τοὺς παρ⟩όντας: cf 21 ‖ 19 scr ἄρρηκτόν?? ἄπταιστόν?? ἄυευστόν? ‖ 30 scr θλῖψις ψυχαῖς δυναμέναις? 33 post ἑπτὰ interpungit, lacunam quae uidelur esse post μου (μου τὸν ἄνδρα· Ἀναστάσης δὲ αὐτῆς temptabat Iames) non signigicat R

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