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The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena 19

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And as they went into the chamber, they heard her singing.

2Praise the Lord you sinners also, because he accepts your prayers also. Alleluia.

3Praise the Lord you that have despaired like me, for many are his mercies. Alleluia.

4Praise him you ungodly, because for you he was crucified. Alleluia.

5Praise him you that strive for the salvation of sinners, because God loves you. Alleluia.

6Praise him, you that rejoice at the calling of sinners, because you are fellow citizens with the saints. Alleluia.

7As she said these words and more than these with tears, the wise men Barandus and Gnosteas opening the door entered and fell at her feet, saying, Pray for us lowly ones, O servant of Christ, that he may bring us also into your number. But she said to them, Brethren, I am not Paul who remits sins, but neither is he far from you. Therefore fall not before my knees, but go to him, who is also more able to benefit you. Then they came running to the house of Philotheus to Paul, and found him teaching a great multitude. And Probus also came to hear Paul, and Xanthippe entered along with him to salute him, and coming near to Paul and bending her knees she did him reverence. Probus seeing this marvelled that her so proud spirit had changed to so great humility, for she sat beside the feet of Paul on the ground humbly and as one of the worthless. And Probus was greatly grieved, not yet attending to the hearing of the word, but was ever gazing and fixing his attention on Xanthippe.

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About The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.