to prison, having administered the sacraments to her and her foster-mother. That morning Mygdonia preaches a sermon to her husband on Jesus as the heavenly bridegroom. Thomas is now ordered by the king and besought by Charisius to make Mygdonia alter her conduct ; but his feeble commands are refuted by her from his own teaching (x.). Tertia the queen pays a visit to Mygdonia and returns convinced (xi . ) . Thomas is again imprisoned, and converts Vazanes the king's son. An attempted torture being miraculously frustrated, he is conducted back and speaks a long prayer (xii.) . Jesus, mostly in the form of Thomas, leads the converts and with them Mnesara, the wife of Vazanes, to the prison. They enter Vazanes' house, where they are 'sealed' and baptized by Thomas. After the Eucharistic meal, Thomas returns to the prison {Martyrium). The Apostle, followed by a multitude, is taken to a mountain and there pierced with swords. On the mountain Sifor the general and Vazanes receive orders as presbyter and deacon (xiii.).
(2) Original langv/ige. — After Schroter {ZDMG, 1871, p. 327 ff.), Noldeke {ib. 670-679 and in Lipsius, Apokr. Apostelgesch. ii.^ [1884] 423-425), and Macke (Th. Quartalschr., 1874, pp. 3-70), Burkitt has settled the question (JThSt i. [1900] 280-290). The existence of a Syriac original is proved by a series of errors in the Greek arising from Syriac idioms or 'm-iting.
(3) Text.~(,a)TheSyriac(ed.WTight,Apocr.Acts,Lond. 1871, i. 172-333, text ; ii. 146 ff., translation) is preserved in Br. Mus. Syr. Add 14645 (a.d. 936). Another MS is at Berlin : Sachau 222, a double of this at Cambridge (P. Bedjan, Act. Mart, and Snnct. iii. Paris, 1892, gives variants from the Berlin MS). Fragments from the 6th cent, in a Sinai palimpsest, Syr. Sin. 30, have been published by Bur kitt(S<ud.6'ire., Cambridge, 1900, vol. i X. app. 7) . Search should be made in the East for M SS of this text and its Oriental and Greek versions. Our present text is not always superior to the Greek version. On the text of the hvmns (in Acts i. andix.), cf. A. A. Bevan, 'The Hvmn of the Soul," TS V. 3 [1897] ; Hoffmann, ZNTW, 1903, pp. 273-309 ; E. Preuschen, Zivei gno^t. Hymnen, Giessen, 1904 ; but see Burkitt, r/i r.Leyden, 1905, pp. 270-282 ; Duncan Jones, ,/r;i6'« vi. [1905] 448-451.
(6) The Greek version (ed. Bonnet, Acta Apost. Apocr., ii. 2, Leipzig, 1903). The 13 'Acts' + the Martyrium exist as a whole in two MSS. The best text is Cod. U (Rome, VallicelL B 35, llthcent.). Thisis the only Greek MS of the ' Hymn of the Soul" (Actix.chs. 108-113). On the text of this Hymnin Nicetas of Salonica,cf. Bonnet, Preface, p. xxiii. The other complete MSis P (Paris, grsc. 1510, 12th or 13th cent.). The (19) other MSS give but selections. We must, therefore, revaewseparately the MSSforpart (A) = Acts i.ii., part (B) = Actsiii.-xii., part (C) = Act xiii. + Martyrium. Besides UP, 15 copies preserve (A) , of which CXBHTG have no trace of (B) or (C), while V gives here only the exordium of (A) ; 9 copies preserve (B), of which VYRD have no selections beyond Act viii., w'hile SFQZL give here no more than the 'prayers ' of Act xii., which, against the order of these MSS and P, Bonnet has inserted here, following U + Syr. ; 11 copies preserve (C), of which KOM omit (A) and (B) altogether, while Q gives here only the exordium of Act xiii. Identical selections : FRCX (pp. 99-146» Bonnet), BH (99-1452^), SFZL (251 "'-258™, see Pref. p. xxii), SFZ (275"'-288). The genealogy is still obscure. In part (A) Bonnet distinguishes two types of text : r and A. The r text=GHZ and B (1st half). The A text = A (Paris. _gr»c. 881, 10th cent.) + fam. * ( = the rest of the MSS, U andP i ncluded) . Both types have several unimportant variationsin common, which mast derive from a not very distant ancestor. But, as they more often differ on serious points, the tradition of the Greek text appears to be not very reliable. In part (C) again two types occur, viz. A4- fam. f2 ( =KORUV) and P + fam.2( =FLSZ). All these MSS belonged to the A textin part (A), Z only excepted (Petersb. imp. 94, 12th cent.) ; cf. 'identi- cal selections' above. In part(B) theMSSaregroupedontheir textual merits and in a descending order : LTVYR, P, D. On the MSS neglected by Bonnet cf. Pref. p. xxiv ff. A Brussels MS (ii. 2047) might be of some interest. Several MSS are still hidden in Smyrna, Jerusalem, Athos (the catalogues of the most important libraries, Lavra and Vatopedi, are still un- published). Bonnet's text might beimproved. Only from pp. 197-250 could due influence be allowed to the Syriac and its ally. Cod. U, Burkitt having then con\'inced the editor that the Greek was but the version of a Syriac original (Pref. p. xxi) .
(c) The Armenian version should be better known. A MS exists atParis (Bibl. nat.fonds arm. 46III), which Vetteris expected to publish in the Or. Christ. The ' Hymn of the Soul ' is not in it. Preuschen (Hennecke, Neutest. Apokr. ii. 563) was impressed by its variations, not by the quality of its text. In Conybeare's opinion the Arm. version derives from the Syriac (op.cit.i. 475).