Acta Philippi
Acta Philippi
Acts of Philip. The Apocryphal New Testament, being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses. James, Montague Rhodes, translator. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.
120 And he dragged her by the hair and threatened to kill her. And the apostles were arrested,
121 and scourged and dragged to the temple,
122 and shut up in it
(with the leopard and the kid. These are omitted in the principal text, but constantly occur in another recension: rightly, of course).123 The people and priests came and demanded vengeance on the sorcerers.
124 The proconsul was afraid of his wife, for he had been almost blinded by a wonderful light when he looked through the window at her when praying.