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But I remembered not the brightness of it; for I was yet a child and very young when I had left it in the palace of my Father,76
but suddenly, [when] I saw the garment made like unto me as it had been in a mirror.77
And I beheld upon it all myself (or saw it wholly in myself), and I knew and saw myself through it,78
that we were divided asunder, being of one; and again were one in one shape.79
Yea, the treasurers also which brought me the garment80
I beheld, that they were two, yet one shape was upon both, one royal sign was set upon both of them.81
The money and the wealth had they in their hands, and paid me the due price,82
and the lovely garment, which was variegated with bright colours,83
with gold and precious stones and pearls of comely hue84
they were fastened above (or in the height),85
(and with stones of adamant were all its seams fastened›.86
And the likeness of the King of kings was all in all of it.87
Sapphire stones were fitly set in it above (or, like the sapphire stone also were its manifold hues).Acta Thomae. Anonymous. Oxford. 1924.
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