“whom you saw on the tree, glad & laughing, this is the living Jesus. But this one into whose hands & feet they drive the nails is... is the substitute being put to shame, the one who came into being in his likeness. But look at him & me." (The Apocalypse of Peter 81) According to Bishop Sozomen in Palestine in the fifth century CE the Apocalypse of Peter was still being read in church on Good Friday in his day: see C. S. C. Williams, ‘The History of the Text and Canon of the New Testament to Jerome’, in Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2, pp. 27-53, at p. 43.
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| Title | The Tree, Glad And Laughing |
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| Description | Citation image from the Apocalypse of Peter and a note on Sozomen. |
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“whom you saw on the tree, glad & laughing, this is the living Jesus. But this one into whose hands & feet they drive the nails is... is the substitute being put to shame, the one who came into being in his likeness. But look at him & me." (The Apocalypse of Peter 81) According to Bishop Sozomen in Palestine in the fifth century CE the Apocalypse of Peter was still being read in church on Good Friday in his day: see C. S. C. Williams, ‘The History of the Text and Canon of the New Testament to Jerome’, in Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2, pp. 27-53, at p. 43.