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PHILIP, ACTS OF

A fragmentary apocryphal work from the 4th or 5th century a.d., surviving in Greek, Syriac, and Latin. It reports 15 acts and the martyrdom of Philip: the apostle raises the dead, heals blind men with magical words, converses with animals, makes the earth swallow 7000 men, and smiles while hanged upside down by his pierced ankles and thighs. He preaches a severe encratite philosophy of chastity, and his nature metamorphoses from beastly to mild.

Bibliography. J. K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament, rev. ed. (Oxford, 1993), 512-18, 531.

Richard A. Spencer







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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