III. APOCALYPSIS or Revelation of S. Paul, an apocryphal Book, which was in use among the Gnosticks and Cainites1. This Book contain’d, as these Hereticks pretended, those ineffable things, which the Apostle had seen during his extasy, and 2 Cor. xii. 4.which, as he tells the Corinthians, he was not permitted to divulge. Sozomen says2, that several monks in his time set a great value on this work, and affirmed, that it had been discovered by a divine revelation, in the reign of Theodosius, at Tarsus, in S. Paul’s house, where it had been hidden in a marble trunk under ground. But Sozomen enquiring into this fact, of an old Priest belonging to the Church of Tarsus, the Priest answered, that he had never heard any thing about it, and believed this story to have been the invention of some Hereticks.
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