FORBIDDEN BOOKS OF THE ORIGINAL NEW TESTAMENT
Translation By William Wake. Public Domain
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Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, By Archbisop Wake
THE SUPPRESSED GOSPELS AND EPISTLES OF THE ORIGINAL NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS THE CHRIST AND OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ANCIENT HOLY SCRIPTURES NOW EXTANT, ATTRIBUTED TO HIS APOSTLES, AND THEIR DISCIPLES, AND VENERATED BY THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES DURING THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES, BUT SINCE, AFTER VIOLENT DISPUTATIONS FORBIDDEN BY THE BISHOPS OF THE NICENE COUNCIL IN THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE AND OMITTED FROM THE CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANT EDITIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, BY ITS COMPILERS
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THE GOSPEL CALLED THE PROTEVANGELION
or an historical account of the BIRTH OF CHRIST, and the perpetual VIRGIN MARY, his mother by JAMES THE LESSER, Cousin and Brother of the Lord Jesus, ..
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CHAPTER XII
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12 Then said Mary again to Joseph, take me down, for that which is within me mightily presses me.
13 And Joseph took her down
14 And he found there a cave, and let her into it.
CHAPTER XIII
1 Joseph seeks a Hebrew midwife,
2 perceives the owls stopping in their flight
3 the working people at their food not moving,
8 the sheep standing still,
9 the shepherd fixed and immoveable,
10 and kids with their mouths touching the water but not drinking AND leaving her and his sons in the cave, Joseph went forth to seek a Hebrew midwife in the village of Bethlehem.
2 But as I was going (said Joseph) I looked up into the air, and I saw the clouds astonished, and the fowls of the air stopping in the midst of their flight.
3 And I looked down towards the earth, and saw a table spread, and working people sitting around it, but their hands were upon the table and they did not move to eat
4 They who had meat in their mouths did not eat.
5 They who lifted their hands up to their heads did not draw them back
6 And they who lifted them up to their mouths did not put any thing in;
7 But all their faces were fixed upwards
8 And I beheld the sheep dispersed, and yet the sheep stood still.
9 And the shepherd lifted up his hand to smite them, and his hand continued up.
10 And I looked unto a river, and saw the kids with their mouths close to the water, and touching it, but they did not drink.
CHAPTER XIV
1 Joseph finds a midwife.
10 A bright cloud overshadows the cave.
11 A great light in the cave, gradually increases until the infant is born.
13 The mid-wife goes out, and tells Sal-ome that she has seen a virgin bring forth
17 Salome doubts it
20 her hand withers,
22 she supplicates the Lord,
28 is cured,
30 but warned not to declare what she had seen THEN I beheld a woman coming down from the mountains, and she said to me, Where art thou going, O man?
2 And I said to her, I go to enquire for a Hebrew midwife
3 She replied to me, Where is the woman that is to be delivered?
4 And I answered, In the cave and she is betrothed to me.
5 Then said the midwife, Is she not thy wife?
6 Joseph answered, It is Mary, who was educated in the Holy of Holies, in the house of the Lord, and she fell to me by lot, and is not my wife, but has conceived by the Holy Ghost.
7 The midwife said, Is this true?
8 He answered, Come and see.
9 And the midwife went along with him, and stood in the cave.
10 Then a bright cloud over- shadowed the cave, and the mid- wife said, This day my soul is magnified, for mine eyes have seen surprising things, and salvation is brought forth to Israel
11 But on a sudden the cloud became a great light in the cave, so that their eyes could not bear it.
12 But the light gradually decreased, until the infant appeared, and sucked the breast of his mother, Mary
13 Then the midwife cried out, and said, How glorious a day is this, wherein mine eyes have seen this extraordinary sight!
14 And the midwife went out from the cave, and Salome met her
15 And the midwife said to her, Salome, Salome, I will tell you a most surprising thing which I saw,
16 A virgin hath brought forth, which is a thing contrary to nature
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