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APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS.

their Lord. We then, if we do not very carefully what we see our gods do, may incur the peril of his indignation, and may all come to destruction, as befel Pharoah, king of the Egyptians: who, not believing such great miracles, was drowned with all his army in the sea.[1] Then all the people of that city believed in the Lord God through Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER XXV.

Not much time after, an angel said to Joseph, Return to the land of Judah, for they are dead who sought the child's life.[2]

CHAPTER XXVI.

And it came to pass, that after the return of Jesus from Egypt, when he was in Galilee, and now entered on the fourth year of his age, one Sabbath day he played with the children by the bed of the Jordan. When, therefore, he had sat down, Jesus made himself seven pools with mud, to each of which he made little channels, through which, at his command he brought water from the stream into a pool, and sent it back again. Then one of those children, a son of the devil, with envious mind shut up the channels which supplied water to the pools, and overthrew what Jesus had

  1. Ps. cxxxvi. 15. Ex. xv. 4.
  2. Matt. ii. 26. The book ends here in the text followed by Thilo.