Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Professor Schmidt has published a photographic copy, a transcription, a German translation, and a commentary of a Coptic papyrus composed of about fragments, which he has classified, juxtaposed, and deciphered at a cost of infinite labour "Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrushandschrift Nr. Most critics, whether Catholic Duchesne, Bardenhewer, Ehrhard etc.
This discovery modified the generally accepted ideas concerning the origin, contents, and value of these apocryphal Acts, and warrants the conclusion that three ancient compositions which have reached us formed an integral part of the "Acta Pauli" viz.
Zahn, "Gesch. Kanons", II, , and the Latin discovered by Berger in d. With great sagacity Zahn anticipated this result with regard to the last two documents, and the manner in which St. Jerome speaks of the periodoi Pauli et Theclae Illustrious Men 7 might have permitted the same surmise with regard to the first.
Another consequence of Schmidt's discovery is no less interesting. The stichometry of the "Codex Claromontanus" photograph in Vigouroux, "Dict. Tertullian and St.
Jerome , while pointing out the legendary character of this writing, do not attack its orthodoxy. The precise purpose of St. Paul's correspondence with the Corinthians which formed part of the "Acts", was to oppose the Gnostics , Simon and Cleobius.
