Apocryphal Thomas

ACTS OF THOMAS : M. M. NINAN
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“I entreat you, as a man that entreat the minister of God,
that you would pray for me
and beseech him whose minister you are to forgive me
and overlook that which I have done to you or you ought to do,
and that I may become a worthy inhabiter of that dwelling for the which I took no pains,
but you have built it for me,
laboring alone,
the grace of your God working with you,
and that I also may become a servant
and serve this God whom you preach.”
And his brother also fell down before the Apostle and said:
“I entreat and supplicate you before your God
that I may become worthy of his ministry and service,
and that it may fall to me to be worthy of the things
that were shown to me by his angels.”
25 And the Apostle, filled with joy, said:
“I praise you, O Lord Jesu,
that you have revealed your truth in these men;
for you only art the God of truth, and none other,
and you art he that know all things that are unknown to the most;
you, Lord, art he that in all things show compassion and spare men.
For men by reason of the error that is in them,
having overlooked you but you have not overlooked them.
And now at my supplication and request do you receive the king and his brother
and join them to your fold,
cleansing them with your washing
and anointing them with your oil
from the error that encompass them:
and keep them also from the wolves,
bearing them into your meadows.
And give them drink out of your immortal fountain
which is neither fouled nor dry up;
for they entreat and supplicate you
and desire to become your servants and ministers,
and for this they are content even to be persecuted of your enemies,
and for your sake to be hated of them
and to be mocked and to die,
like as you for our sake didst suffer all these things,
that you might preserve us,
you that art Lord and verily the good shepherd.
And do you grant them to have confidence in you alone,
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