as you suppose,[1] but in order to live, that ye may do unto us[2] as Paul promised to us, whom we have just seen in prayer beside you." Upon hearing this, Titus and Luke[3] gave them joyfully the seal in the Lord, glorifying God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be honor for ever and ever. Amen.[4]
The Coptic has the statement: "the Acts of Paul according to the Apostle," i.e. according to Paul himself. As the fragment which thus concludes is the story of Paul's martyrdom, we have a parallel here to the conclusion of the Pentateuch with the story of Moses' death. Probably the good people of the second century found no more difficulty in attributing the account of his own death to St. Paul than many devout Christians have in attributing Deut. XXXIV to Moses.—
