Acta Thomae, Acta Thomae, ed. Maximilian Bonnet, 113

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[113] ἑώρων δὲ αὗθις ὅτι δι᾽ ὅλων κινήσεις ἐξεπέμποντο γνώσεως, καὶ ἦν ἑτοίμη ἀφεῖναι λόγον· ἤκουον δὲ αὐτῆς ὁμιλούσης· Ἐγώ εἰμι ἐκείνου τῶν πάντων ἀνθρώπων ἀνδρειοτάτου οὗ ἕνεκεν παρ᾽ αὐτῷ τῷ πατρὶ ἐνεγράφην· καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ᾐσθόμην αὐτοῦ τῆς ἡλικίας. Αἱ δὲ κινήσεις αἱ βασιλικαὶ πᾶσαι ἐπανεπαύοντό μοι αὐξανούσης πρὸς ταύτης ὁρμάς· ἔσπευδεν ἐκ χειρὸς αὐτοῦ ὀρεγομένη ἐπὶ τὸν δεχόμενον αὐτήν. κἀμὲ ὁ πόθος διήγειρεν ὁρμῆσαι εἰς ὑπάντησιν αὐτοῦ καὶ δέξασθαι αὐτήν. ἐκταθεῖσαν δὲ χρωμάτων ἐκομίσθην, καὶ τὴν στολήν μου τὴν βασιλικὴν ὑπερέχουσαν ἐστολισάμην δι᾽ ὅλου· ἐνδυσάμενος δὲ ἤρθην εἰς χώραν εἰρήνης σεβάσματος· καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλίνας προσεκύνησα τοῦ πατρὸς τὸ φέγγος τοῦ ἀποστείλαντός μοι ταύτην, ὅτι ἐγὼ μὲν ἐποίησα τὰ προσταχθέντα, καὶ αὐτὸς ὁμοίως ὅπερ κατεπηγγείλατο· καὶ ἐν ταῖς θύραις τοῦ βασιλικοῦ τοῦ ἐξ ἀρχῆς αὐτοῦ κατεμειγνύβαλον μήν. ἥσθη δὲ ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ καὶ εἰσεδέξατό με μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις· πάντες δὲ οἱ ὑπήκοοι αὐτοῦ εὐφήμοις φωναῖς ὑμνοῦσιν· ὑπέσχετο δέ μοι καὶ εἰς τὰς τοῦ βασιλέως θύρας σὺν αὐτῷ ἀποσταλεῖσθαι, ἵνα μετὰ τῶν ἐμῶν δώρων καὶ τοῦ μαργαρίτου ἅμα αὐτῷ φαινώμεθα τῷ βασιλεῖ.

Acta Thomae. Acta Thomae. ed. Maximilian Bonnet. Leipzig. 1903.

Funding provided by University of Virginia; Center for Hellenic Studies.

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Πράξεις τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Θωμᾶ (Greek) (Acta Philippi et Acta Thomae accedunt Acta Barnabae. Bonnet, Maximilian, editor. Leipzig: Hermannus Mendelssohn, 1903.)

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Acts of Thomas First1KGreek (Acts of Thomas. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. James, Montague Rhodes, translator. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.) — 113 focus

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And again I saw that throughout it motions of knowledge were being sent forth,

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and it was ready to utter speech.

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And I heard it speak ‹with them that had brought it›:

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I am of him that is more valiant than all men, for whose sake I was reared up with the Father himself.

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And I also perceived his stature ¹.

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And all its royal motions rested upon me as it grew toward the impulse of it (And with its kingly motions it was spreading itself toward me).

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And it hastened, reaching out from the hand of ‹him that brought it› unto him that would receive it,

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and me also did yearning arouse to start forth and meet it and receive it.

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And I stretched forth and received it, and adorned myself with the beauty of the colours thereof ²,

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and in my royal robe excelling in beauty I arrayed myself wholly.

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And when I had put it on, I was lifted up unto the place of peace (salutation) and homage,

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and I bowed my head and worshipped the brightness of the Father which had sent it unto me,

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for I had performed his commandments, and he likewise that which he had promised,

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and at the doors of his palace which was from the beginning I mingled among ‹his nobles›,

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and he rejoiced over me and received me with him into his palace,

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and all his servants do praise him with sweet voices.

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And he promised me that with him I shall be sent unto the gates of the king,

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that with my gifts and my pearl we may appear together before the king.

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