Acta Thomae, Acta Thomae, ed. Maximilian Bonnet, 44

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Εἶπεν δὲ ὁ ἀπόστολος· Ὤ πονηρία ἀκατάσχετος· ὢ ἀναίδεια τοῦ ἐχθροῦ· ὢ ὁ βάσκανος ὁ μηδέποτε ἠρεμῶν· ὢ ὁ δυσειδὴς ὁ τοὺς εὐειδεῖς ὑποτάσσων· ὢ ὁ πολύμορφος· ὡς ἂν βουληθῇ φαίνεται, ἡ δὲ τούτου οὐσία μεταβληθῆναι οὐ δύναται· ὢ ἀπὸ τοῦ δολίου καὶ ἀπίστου· ὢ τὸ δένδρον τὸ πικρόν, οὖ οἱ καρποὶ αὐτοῦ ἐοίκασιν· οὖ ἀπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου τοῦ ὑπερμαχοῦντος τῶν ἀλλοτρίων· οὖ ἀπὸ τῆς πλάνης τῆς χρωμένης τῇ ἀναιδείᾳ· οὖ ἀπὸ τῆς πονηρίας τῆς ἑρπούσης ὡς ὄφις καὶ τούτου συγγενοῦς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχοντος.

Καὶ ταῦτα εἰπόντος τοῦ ἀποστόλου ἐλθὼν ὁ δυσμενὴς ἔστη ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, μηδενὸς ὁρῶντος αὐτὸν εἰ μὴ τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ τοῦ ἀποστόλου, καὶ φωνῇ μεγίστῃ χρησάμενος εἶπεν πάντων ἀκουόντων·

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

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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.) — 44 focus

[44] And the apostle said: O evil that cannot be restrained! O shamelessness of the enemy! O envious one that art never at rest! O hideous one that subduest the comely! O thou of many forms! As he will he appeareth, but his essence cannot be changed. O the crafty and faithless one! O the bitter tree, whose fruits are like unto him! O the devil that overcometh them that are alien to him! O the deceit that useth impudence! O the wickedness that creepeth like a serpent, and that is of his kindred! ¹ And when the apostle said this, the malicious one came and stood before him, no man seeing him save the woman and the apostle, and with an exceeding loud voice said in the hearing of all:

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