Acts of Paul (Coptic Heidelberg papyrus), fragments
Acta Pauli copticae
About the English. Route 3: the Coptic text is the witness; no Coptic is a site language, so the source in hand is Carl Schmidt's German translation (1904), translated by Claude with a note; the German is never shown.
43Only a few words survive on this page of the papyrus.
44Paul goes up to Philippi and is welcomed with great joy by the brothers.
45The Corinthians fear for Paul because two teachers, Simon and Cleobius, are denying the resurrection of the flesh, God's creation of man and the world, and Christ's real crucifixion and birth.
46The Corinthians send the deacons Threptus and Eutychus to Paul in Macedonia with a letter from Stephanus and the elders.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · Anonymous; part of the Acts of Paul (a presbyter in Asia, per Tertullian, Bapt. 17).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
ca. 150-200 (approximate) · The Acts of Paul were written in Greek in the later second century; the Coptic papyrus (ca. 6th century) is a translation.
Written at
unknown, Asia Minor (probable) (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
papyrus page (Schmidt's page numbers, 43-46 only)
SBL abbreviation
Acts PaulNot yet checked
Clavis
CANT/CPG number not yet checked
Text from
Carl Schmidt, ed., Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrushandschrift Nr. 1 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1904), German translation 73-74 (Printed translation in the public domain; Internet Archive OCR of a public-domain scan)