135 The author probably saw representations of the Ascension and of the Last Judgment, with Christ seated with the Books of Life and Death in his hand on a great white cloud, and composed this story out of what he saw, associating the pictures with the floating popular legend of Simon Magus. 136 In the story of Simon the Sorcerer, it is at the prayer of Simon Peter that the Sorcerer falls whilst flying and breaks all his bones. Perhaps the author saw a picture of the Judgment with saints on the cloud with Jesus, and the lost falling into the flames of hell. 137 Ἑβραΐδι διαλέκτῳ. 138 Euseb. Hist. Eccl. lib. iii. c. 39. 139 _Ibid._ lib. v. c. 8. 140 Spicileg. Patrum, Tom. I. 141 Euseb. Hist. Eccl. vi. 25. 142 _Ibid._ iii. 24. 143 St. Hieron. De vir. illust., s.v. Matt. 144 _Ibid._ s.v. Jacobus. 145 _Ibid._ in Matt. xii. 13. 146 _Ibid._ Contra. Pelag. iii. 1. 147 Ἔχουσι δὲ (οἱ Ναζαραῖοι) τὸ κατὰ Μαθαῖον εὐαγγέλιον πληρέστατον ἑβραιστι.—Haer. xxix. 9. 148 Καθῶς ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐγράφη.—_Ibid._ 149 _Ibid._ xxx. 3. 150 Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ τοὺς ἀποστόλους. 151 Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ τοὺς δώδεκα. Origen calls it “The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles,” Homil. i. in Luc. St. Jerome the same, in his Prooem. in Comment. sup. Matt. 152 Adv. Pelag. iii. 10. 153 Ἀπομνημονεύματα τῶν Ἀποστόλων. 154 “Ἐν τοῖς γεγομένοις ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἀπομνημονεύμασιν, ἅ καλεῖται Εὐαγγέλια.” And “ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ Εὐαγγελίῳ,” when speaking of these Reminiscences, Dialog. cum Tryphon. §11. Just. Mart. Opera, ed. Cologne, p. 227. 155 1 Apol. ii. 156 Justin Mart. Opp. ed. Cologne; 2 Apol. p. 64; Dialog. cum Tryph. p. 301; _ibid._ p. 253; 2 Apol. p. 64; Dial. cum Tryph. p. 326; 2 Apol. pp. 95, 96. 157 Οἱ ἐξ Ἀραβίας μάγοι, or μάγοι ἀπὸ Ἀραβίας.—Dialog. cum Tryph. pp. 303, 315, 328, 330, 334, &c. 158 Matt. ii. 1. 159 Ἐν σπηλαίῳ τινὶ σύνεγγυς τῆς κώμης κατέλυσε.—Dialog. cum. Tryph. pp. 303, 304. 160 Dial. cum Tryph. p. 291. 161 Euseb. Hist. Eccl. iii. 25. 162 Adv. Pelag. iii. 1. 163 Comm. in Ezech. xxiv. 7. 164 “De versione Syriacâ testatur Sionita, quod ut semper in summâ veneratione et auctoritate habita erat apud omnes populos qui Chaldaicâ sive Syriacâ utuntur linguâ, sic publicè in omnibus eorum ecclesiis antiquissimis, constitutis in Syriâ, Mesopotamiâ, Chaldaeâ, Aegypto, et denique in universis Orientis partibus dispersis ac disseminatis accepta ac lecta fuit.”—Walton: London Polyglott, 1657. 165 In Matt. iii. 17; Luke i. 71; John i. 3; Col. iii. 5. 166 It omits the 2nd and 3rd Epistles of St. John, the Epistle of Jude, and the Apocalypse.