Acts of Paul (Coptic Heidelberg papyrus), fragments
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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.
Chapter 43
43Schmidt 1904, papyrus page 43
Translated by Claude from C. Schmidt's German translation (1904) of the Coptic; neither is shown
… Philippi thereupon … Paul (?) …
Chapter 44
44Schmidt 1904, papyrus page 44
Translated by Claude from C. Schmidt's German translation (1904) of the Coptic; neither is shown
… praised him, so that they praised … Paul (?) … to Philippi (?) … When he had gone from … and wished to go up to Philippi. And when Paul had gone up to Philippi …, he went into [the house of …], (and) great joy arose [among the brothers and] in each one with him (?) …
Chapter 45
45Schmidt 1904, papyrus page 45
Translated by Claude from C. Schmidt's German translation (1904) of the Coptic; neither is shown
… the lawless one … the reward. They (?) … in prayer, each one, and each one (?) …, asking Paul again (? at the same time?) that [someone be sent to] Philippi. For the Corinthians were in great distress over Paul, that he would depart from the world before his time. For men had come up to Corinth, Simon and Cleobius, saying: "There is no resurrection of the flesh, but that of the spirit; and the body of man is not the handiwork of God; and of the world, that God did not create it, and that God does not know the world; and that Jesus Christ was not crucified, but was an appearance; and that he was not born of Mary, nor of the seed of David." In a word, there were many things which they proclaimed (?) in Corinth, deceiving …
Chapter 46
46Schmidt 1904, papyrus page 46
Translated by Claude from C. Schmidt's German translation (1904) of the Coptic; neither is shown
[… many others, and deceived] themselves. Therefore, when the Corinthians heard that Paul was in Philippi, they sent a letter to Paul in Macedonia by Threptus and Eutychus the deacons. The letter was of this form: "Stephanus and the elders who are with him, Daphnus and Eubulus and Zenon, write to Paul, greeting him in the Lord and saying: Two men have come up to Corinth, Si[mon and Cleobius] …"