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See what happens when the lines are blurred and the hidden connections are revealed in this most astonishing of documents. Boldly break the rules of theology and scholarship. Transcend the barriers of conventional thought and grasp what lies beyond it. God is speaking to us by His Eternal Word, through which these things can now be known. One of the great hallmarks of the four canonical gospels is that despite their many similarities, each of them presents Jesus in a slightly different way.

Even so, there were far more than four gospels that emerged during the early years of Christianity. In fact, there were, dozens, perhaps hundreds of gospels, each focusing different periods of Jesus' life, as well as differing aspects of his teaching and ministry.

Could there be the same unity between these gospels as there is between the four? One way to find out would be to combine them all into a single work and simply see what kind of Jesus they collectively present. The Super Gospel represents the first systematic effort to integrate all of the ancient gospels into a single readable text. Then he gazed down and saw the twelve apostles at his right and at his left in the creation; and the Spirit was going before them. But I saw in the fourth heaven according to class — I saw the angels resembling gods, the angels bringing a soul out of the land of the dead.

They placed it at the gate of the fourth heaven. And the angels were whipping it. Let them show you in what body I committed lawless deeds. Do you wish to bring a book to read from? And the three witnesses came. I rose up against you until you fell into anger and rage and envy. And I entered at the fifth hour, and I saw you and desired you.

And behold, then, now I charge you with the murders you committed. I gave you darkness until you should accomplish your sins. And then it gazed upward.

It was cast down. The soul that had been cast down went to a body which had been prepared for it. And behold, its witnesses were finished. Proceed toward me! There is no reference to the discovery of a manuscript of the ApP: 3. In the complaint of the natural elements, the waters are represented only by the sea. JI JI f. JJI JI ,.. I was not worth of this magnificent gift, and I dwelt in that condition seven days, moved abou there and the angel of the Lord was with me, showed me all the seats and the places».

This soul is probably different from the tirst one, as she has come out of her body in that very moment, and there is no mention of the first judgement; the soul is then delivered to Michael and sent to the Paradise ff. It seems that in this case Ar.

Collectanea 9 La visione di S. Macario, La rivelazione di Marco al-Tarmaq I. JI Ih t! JJ JJJ f. J has angelos lstituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, , , and Albertus Magnus-VerIag, Vechta i. Ill, pp. Mamb is not likely to have been derived from the name of Malik attested in Qur'an I said to the angel: What is this, oh my master? He said: This is a priest, and he filled himself with food and drinking, he screamed, he celebrated the mess, and he did not act according to the laws of God.

In the main ms. As in Gr. After the ascension to the third sky, the angel makes Paul come out of the second sky, and shows him, from the Eastern part, the foundations of the sky which are placed upon the Ocean ff. In the other versions there is no mention of a second sky.

They are based upon a great, very magnificent see, and that is the see which surrounds the whole of the Earth». Paul is placed at the foundations of the sky which are fixed upon the river which surrounds the Earth.

The episode is condensed in Ar. I as in most of the versions. It is best preserved in Copt and Lat. I and Syr. The description is extremely condensed. The inhabitants ofthe Paradise are very briefly described. There is no interpretation of Alleluia, as in Ar. After the reference to Alleluia there is a lacuna, as the text abruptly exhibits the description of the infernal punishments. I shares these supplementary categories of sinners with Arm.

Jy--P J UlI -. Jl1J y.. Then I asked the angel: Which was the sin of these, oh my master, so that they are punished by this bitter punishment?

He said to me: These are those who were proclaiming among the people they were virgin, and they were lying in what they said. Really they did that only in order to be praised by the men, and this is their reward for what they did. Then I saw another seat, and in it there was a huge reptile. I saw that reptile, and it opened its mouth and swallowed a lot of men until when they had come to die!

The face of that reptile was very terrible, and fire came out f. Then I asked the an- gel: What did these do, so that they were committed to this reptile, and it PUl- ishes them? He said: These were fornicating and defiling their bodies, and they were to take the body of Our Lord Christ, and his pure blood, and they did not fear the last day, and because of that they are in the most terrible punishment. Then T said to the angel: Who are these? He said: These are the priests who devoted themselves to eating, drinking, fornication and disobedience, and they set about communicating Eucharist, and did not stop that until their hour came, and this is their reward».

There is lacuna between f. The rest is conceded for every Sunday. As inAr. No special emphasis is put on the tree placed in the gar- den, where the Holy Spirit rested. The other versions have no mention of a tree flowing with oil: Lat. Mondadori, Milano, , quoted here J , pp. The description of the third tree in Ar. See F.!. See now also Daniel A.

This cannot be now: but then, at that time when the years of the end are filled and completed, then the beloved Christ will come to resurrect Adam's body, because of his sins which took place.

Then, after that, it shall happen in the same fashion to all the wild beasts of the eart, who will arise in resurrection and be worthy of entering the Garden.

I shall anoint them with that oil». See also E. The translation is purely tentative. At the end of the Vision f. This very short information is very important, as among all the versions of the ApP only in Cop! Paul ascends again in Cop! S' ":;';. As for Ar. In the final admonition there is mention of the Virgin Mary by the Syriac expression Mrtmrym 45 f. The evidence that the narrative of the dis- covery of the ApP was transposed to the end of the Vision is very important, even if we have to stress that in Ar.

Other elements indicate a Vorlage close to the Jacobite Syr. Only in the mention of the visit to Hell of the pious soul there is the insertion of a tradition which has no parallel in the versions of the ApP. First of all, there is no nar- rative of the discovery, which is the main tract of the two Syriac versions, even if this element must not be emphasized at the present phase of the re- search, when we almost completely ignore the textual tradition of the ArApP.

The absence of the narrative could be due to an accident in the late history of the family ofmss. Even in this case we must be prudent. The names of these angels are so common in other Apocalyptic texts that they could also be an addition to a primitive Arabic text where there was no mention of angels's names, and not the survival of and old tract: we have to keep in mind that in the case of the «Oil of mercy» zayt al-rabmah Ar.

A further element of a tentative connection of Ar. In particular, it is possible that further researches may show the existence of other textual types. First of all, the Vision of Pseudo-Athanasius 46 , which is completely derived from the ApP: it contains all the main narrative elements of the ApP, included the scene of Mercy through intercession ofMichael the archangel.

The Homily is to be read on the I t h of the month of ijedar. He entered the house of Mary, the mother of John «who is called Mark the Evangelist», and found there a holy book, written by John the Evangelist. In the book there was written how the angels ravished John «in a Vision» bara'ey to the sky, to visit the infernal torments and to assist at St.

Michael's intercession in fa- vour of the souls of the sinners. The tradition of John as concurrent with Paul in the Vision of the afterlife is also corroborated by the Ethiopic Apocalypse of the Virgin, where the same Vision attributed to Paul in the ApP is told by the Virgin herself to «John the son ofZebedee» This may be merely due to a late Ethiopic internal development, but the question needs to be carefully investigated.

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Catherine on Mount Sinai Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Traduction de I 'edition armenienne de Venise. Series Apocryphorum» 3 Brepols, Turnhout, William F. Clarendon Press, Oxford, Heffer and Sons, Limited, Cambridge, Catalogue, Tome I H.