Acta Joannis, Acta Joannis, ed. Maximilian Bonnet, 68

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68 τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ ἡγοῦμαι ὑπάρχειν καὶ πρὸς ἣν ἕκαστος ἡμῶν ἀσκεῖ πίστιν· τότε ταύτην ἐκκρίνεσθαι εἰ ἄρα ἀληθής, ὁπόταν μέχρις ἔξω τοῦ βίου ὁμαλισθῇ. πολλὰ γὰρ ἐμπόδια παρεμπίπτει καὶ θόρυβον παρασκευάζει τῷ ἀνθρωπίνῳ λογισμῷ·
μέριμνα, παῖδες, γονεῖς, δόξα, πενία, κολακεία, ἀκμή, κάλλος, ἀλαζονεία, ἐπιθυμία, πλοῦτος, ὀργή, ἔπαρσις, ῥᾳθυμία, ¹ φθόνος, πλοῦτος, ζῆλος, ἀμέλεια, ὕβρις, ἔρως, δόλος, χρήματα, πρόφασις, καὶ ἄλλα ὁπόσα ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ τοιαῦτα ἐμπόδια, ὡς καὶ τῷ κυβερνήτῃ ρερομένῳ εὐδίῳ δρόμῳ ἐναντιοῦται πνευμέτων ἐναντίων ἐπιβολὴ καὶ χειμὼν μέγας καὶ τρικυμία ἐξ
εὐδίας, καὶ τῷ γεωργῷ χειμὼν ἄωρος καὶ ἐρυσίβη καὶ ἑρπετὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀναφανέντα, καὶ τοῖς ἀγωνισταῖς τὸ παρὰ μικρόν, καὶ τοῖς τὰς τέχνας μετιοῦσι τὸ παῤ ἐκείνων.

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.) — 68 focus

[68] And thus also I think is it with the faith which each one of us practiseth, that it is then discerned whether it be indeed true, when it continueth like itself even until the end of life. For many obstacles fall into the way, and prepare disturbance for the minds of men: care, children, parents, glory, poverty, flattery, prime of life, beauty, conceit, lust, wealth, anger, uplifting, slackness, envy, jealousy, neglect, fear, insolence, love, deceit, money, pretence, and other such obstacles, as many as there are in this life: as also the pilot sailing a prosperous course is opposed by the onset of contrary winds and a great storm and mighty waves out of calm, and the husbandman by untimely winter and blight and creeping things rising out of the earth, and they that strive in the games ‘just do not win’, and they that exercise crafts are hindered by the divers difficulties of them.

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Acta Joannis

1. 1 ἡ om R ‖ τοῦτ. τ. ἄδ. καταλείψασα β. R ‖ 2 καὶ om R ‖ ὦ] πάτερ καὶ] ἐπίσταμαι add R ‖ ἀμφιβάλλων R ‖ 3 τὸν om R ‖ 3—4 ἀλλὰ - κρ. om R ‖ 5 προσλαβόμενος (τὸν Ἀνδρόνικον) suspic V sener: cf 190, 1 al ‖ 5—6 τὸν ἀνδρόνικον M: cf 174, 35 ‖ 6 τῶ ἀνδρονίκω R ‖ 7 ἀφ. εἰς] διαπορῶν R ‖ 8 ἐπ᾿] καὶ ἐπὶ R ‖ εἶτα] δὲ καὶ add ἀδ.] ἁπάντων add R: cf 203, 10? ‖ ἐπισ.] πρὸς αὐτὸν add R ‖ 9—10 ὑπὲρ καὶ om R ‖ 10 del καὶ? ‖ ἤρξ.] ὁ ἰωάννης add R ‖ 11—13 ὁ κ. σεσ. καὶ om R ‖ 14 τῇ γῇ om R ‖ 14—16 καὶ π. - σπέρμ. om R ‖ 14—15 scr τῇ τ. ἐπιμελείᾳ κ. φρουρᾷ? ‖ 15 ἐχέτω V sener et Zahn recte ut uid: cf 161, 9 ‖ 16 πολυπλασίονα et add τότε χαιρέτω R ‖ 17 δρ. ὑπ.] τρέχων R ‖ 18—21 ὁ πυκτ. - ἐπηγγ. om R ‖ 18 ⟨ἐπὶ⟩ uel ⟨πρὸς⟩ πυκτικὴν? ‖ 19 scr ὁπόταν? cf 16; 17; 20; 24 ‖ 20 αἱ del V sener ‖ 21 πρὸς] scr προ- κεχωρηκότα ? cf 184, 14; 16: noli ex 𝔘 corrigere ‖ 22 τὸ α. δὲ] τοῦτο δὲ αὐτὸ R ‖ καὶ om R ‖ 23 ὑμῶν R ‖ 23—24 τότε - ὁμ. om R ‖ 25 παραπίπτειν R ‖ 26 ἀκμή om R ‖ 27 ἐπιθ. πλούτου Zahn cum Lazio: cf 184, 1 ‖ ὀργή et ῥᾳθ. om

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