The Church Fathers · c. 160–190
The Acts of Paul
An elder of Asia
What it is
Paul's travels from Damascus to his beheading in Rome, including the baptised lion that later refuses to eat him in the arena, and the description of the man himself — small, bald, bandy-legged, eyebrows meeting, nose slightly hooked, full of grace.
Why it lasted
Tertullian reports that the elder who wrote it was removed from office for it, though he had done it out of love for Paul. It is the source of the only physical description of an apostle to survive from antiquity.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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