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The full text of The Acts of Paul at Wikisource, translation by M. R. James in the 1924 book The Apocryphal New Testament; section II of the full Acts are the Acts of Paul and Thecla; Acts of Paul and Thecla, translated probably by Jeremiah Jones (1693–1724) "Acts of Paul and Thecla". ANF08.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a 2nd-century text (c. AD 180) which forms part of the Acts of Paul, but was also circulated separately.According to the text, Thecla was a young noble virgin from Iconium who chose to leave her fiancé so she could convert to Christianity and follow Paul.
The Life and Miracles of Saint Thecla (Latin: De vita et miraculis sanctae Theclae) is a Greek hagiography of Thecla, the reputed follower of Paul of Tarsus. [1] The text was composed between 445 and 474. [2] It consists of two books, the first a biography and the second an account of 46 posthumous miracles wrought by Thecla.
The work does not use the canonical Acts of the Apostles as a source; instead it relies on oral traditions of Paul's missionary work. The text is primarily known from Greek manuscripts. [4] The discovery of a Coptic language version of the text demonstrated that the text was composed of: The Acts of Paul and Thecla; The Third Epistle to the ...
The Acts of Thomas and the Acts of Peter and the Twelve are often considered Gnostic texts. While most of the texts are believed to have been written in the 2nd century, at least two, the Acts of Barnabas and the Acts of Peter and Paul are believed to have been written as late as the 5th century. Acts of Andrew; Acts of Barnabas; Acts of John ...
3. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou 4. “Life is pleasant, death is peaceful.
Acts quotes Paul referring to his family by saying he was "a Pharisee, born of Pharisees". [ 58 ] [ 59 ] Paul's nephew, his sister's son, is mentioned in Acts 23:16. [ 60 ] In Romans 16:7, he states that his relatives, Andronicus and Junia , were Christians before he was and were prominent among the Apostles.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 6 (P. Oxy. 6) is a fragment of the Acts of Paul and Thecla, written in Greek. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the fifth century. It is housed in the Cambridge University Library. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898. [1]