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SIMON PETER
SIMON PETER
(c) The third &in group is made up of thefollowing
three compilurions.
(r) A 1.d" Pnrria Petri er Pauli in a MS of the Laurenrion
Libraw at Florence, relating to the onflism wich Simon, and
the mart rdomn of the two aportlcr kpinning with the words 'in
diebusil&,cum intmisent ~ ~ ~ ~ Petrurer i b Paulus': - r ~ in ~
Act- Ajnst. Apocr. 1
(2) a 'Pmsion of the holy and
chief aporrler Pete. and paul,! which forms a special rction 01
rhs Eccleriardcal Slrvonic trhnslnrion mentioned abovc(under
-4): (3) the 'Vinut- Petri'andthe'VirtuterP~uli'in thecollection
01 =p+cryphal Accr of the Aportler, wrongly attributed to
the alleged discxplcof the ~ ~poitl~~ Abdiu and entitled ' Hirtoria
mrtaminir aeortoiic/,' or Hirtorla hposlolica,' bkr. I and 1,
printed, r.g., m F=bnciur, Codrr ymv)hwrNT. 2, begin. All
thew piec- are, acsoidang to Liprlun ($6-jp), too recent to be
ofimportance for our prewnr invesrlgatlo".
Of the abundmt conrents of thir literature only the
moil inlporhnt 7:nrr ra:, hrre 1." nc.rr I.
t.2, .\ . IwJ.: s t, t1.s prc Cst':,lic A=:> IVec!:, Paul '~ucn'y.
.I ,he I.h.nci,mmrld!r..ll. K.r.eint"s:l.ln, *I, II!lls tIATUZ, $+&). Herep~~ilchee
him with sunce=ling the fact rhar for his theft from Eubolq
he has bcrn driven from Jude=. 'Didst thou nor
he conunucr, 'in ~e~uialem(~ir)iatl ar my feet and at thorc of rtead(b1 I).
Prul (3ic)whcn thou lxhsldcrt the healing8 wrought by us, and (4 Xt2t;io repar~e points in there proseedings Nero n*r
rxy: I berecrh you rcce r from me a pric., .r muchar you will. Paul why bc is raying nothing. On the first of these ocsniunr
that I may bc able to Pny on my hands and do like deeds of Prul rimply warns thc Emperor against Simon (29); on the
oawer' (W~~, of Pau~~jaumey through
is born and crucified, and has a Lord, cannot he God (s~)., Italy (B gz6 3) extendrover twenty-one chapters. ~ h the ~ ~ ~ r
(r) Petcr now qain challenger Simon to work n mlraclc,
r+ng thar he himself will then c~uncerwork it (11). The
synaguguc and the pagan prieirhovd stir up the people against
them and reek to br~ng Simon the magician lnro honour.
(6) In mnsequence of the reaching of Peter, Livis ( 0 ~ : ~ ~ ; ~
pernap-, 3s meant) the wife Nero and *grippin= the wife of
the prefect grip =(in B 33 [XI rhe'ir hir concubine) withdraw
themre~v~s from Xe society ofthclr hushandr (ra).
(c) Simon performs feats of witchciafr, also before Nero (hc
flier for example, through the air); P~ter works miracl~r of
huiing, cnrting out oi devils and raising of the dead (,r..$
Nero cauwi both, along with Paul, to be brought hefore him
and hears them. As l'cr'erer appeals (r6-r8) to rhc written repor;
01 Pilrle to the emperor Clrudius (sic) Uero cruses ir to be
red aloud (19.2.). Peter ark5 that >hall read hir
thouphrr, bur this Simon is unable to do(wz.s7), complaining also
that Petcr had alrezldy treated him thus in Jud- ."d ill
Palenine and cnmrea(z8). simon reminds the emperor that
he (Simon) had wured himrelf to be beheaded and hrd risen
from the dcad, thus pmving himself to be Son of God. Thr
frcl, however, war that in the dirk place where the beheading
happned he brought it about thar = ram was beheaded in his
nllmhering of'fhe chapters01 thir text will always be higher by
twenty-one than that given in our sitationr here.