of my punishment, come back to your place!" Having spoken thus, and having risen from the bed, the bugs hastened from the door to the bed, ran from between his feet into the joints, and disappeared. And John said again, "This animal heard the voice of a man and kept quiet, without trespassing (against the command). We, however, hear God's voice, and yet in our light-mindedness we transgress his commandments. And how long yet!"
END AND RAISING OF DRUSIANA.
(Aa. pp. 181-193).[1]
62. After this we came to Ephesus. And when the brethren who lived there had learned that John had returned after a long time, they met in the house of Andronicus, where he also used to visit, touched his feet, put his hands to their faces, and kissed them. [Very many also rejoiced by the touch of his garment, and were healed because they had touched the garment of the holy apostle.][2]
63. And while there was great love and endless joy among the brethren, one, a servant, of Satan, coveted Drusiana, although he saw and knew that she was the wife of Andronicus. Very many also
- ↑ See also Zahn, loc. cit., p. 226 f. With ch. 62 commences a parallel narrative by Abdias (histor. apost., V, 4, in Fabricus, cod. pseudepigr. Novi Test. ed., 2, II, 542 ff.)
- ↑ There is a gap in the Greek text. The words in [] are from Abdias.—The following Drusiana-story has been used by the nun Roswitha of Gandersheim (10th cent.) as theme in her Calimachus, the best of her dramatic efforts (opp. ed. Barack, 1858, p. XXXV).
