unto you: If ye say unto this mountain
Lift thyself and be cast into the sea_
without having doubted in your soul,
it shall happen unto you...
as one of them was convinced
whose name was Simon, and who
said: O Lord verily great are
the works which thou doest. For
we have never heard, nor have we seen
[2nd page] ever a man that hath raised
the dead, save thee.
The Lord said unto him: Ye shall
pray for the works, which I myself shall do
...But the other works will I
do straightway. For these I do
for the sake of (?) a momentary sal-
vation in time, in these places where
they are, that they may believe on him who
hath sent me. Simon said unto him:
O Lord, command me, that I may
speak. He said unto him: Speak, Peter.
For from that day he did
call them by name. He said:
What then is this work which is greater than these
...except the raising of the dead
and the feeding of such a multitude?
The Lord said unto him: There is somewhat that is greater
than this, and blessed are they, that have believed
with their whole heart. But Philip
lifted up his voice in wrath
saying: What manner of
thing is this, that thou wilt teach us?
But he said unto him: Thou
This again is not very instructive. The burden of it is, ‘Greater works than these will I do’. There is nothing in it which goes outside the sphere of the canonical Gospels, save Philip’s anger. We shall see that in the Acts of Philip his proneness to wrath is emphasized.
