The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles
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The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, also known as the Sonnini Manuscript, is a short text purporting to be the translation of a manuscript containing the 29th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, detailing Paul the Apostle's journey to Britannia, where he preached to a tribe of Israelites on "Mount Lud" (Ludgate Hill), later the site of St Paul's Cathedral, and met with Druids, who proved to him that they were descended from Jews. Thereafter, Paul preached in Gaul and Belgium, and then to Switzerland (Helvetia), where a miraculous earthquake occurred at the site of Pontius Pilate's supposed suicide.[1]
The canonical book of Acts ends rather abruptly with Paul kept under house arrest in chapter 28, which has led to various theories about the history of the text.[2] This "Lost Chapter" does not explain how Paul escaped or was released from arrest to take up new travels.[3]
History
The text made its first appearance in
It is available in a 1982 edition by E. Raymond Capt (
Purpose and influence
The purpose of the book was likely to support
See also
- St. Paul in Britain (book)
References
- ^ The entire text of the pretended Chapter is reprinted in Edgar J. Goodspeed, Strange New Gospels (1931), chapt. 8, later revised as Modern Apocrypha (1956) chapt. 9.
- ^ ISBN 9780857211781. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ Goodspeed, op.cit.
- ^ Goodspeed, op.cit.
External links
- "Strange New Gospels" by Edgar Godspeed