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The History of Joseph the Carpenter

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Section 20

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20. And when my virgin mother saw me touching his

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body

,

she

also

touched

his

feet

.

And

finding

them

already

dead

and

destitute

of

heat

,

she

said

to

me

:

O

my

beloved

son

,

assuredly

his

feet

are

already

beginning

to

stiffen

,

and

they

are

as

cold

as

snow

.

Accordingly

she

summoned

his

sons

and

daughters

,

and

said

to

them

:

Come

,

as

many

as

there

are

of

you

,

and

go

to

your

father

;

for

assuredly

he

is

now

at

the

very

point

of

death

.

And

Assia

,

his

daughter

,

answered

and

said

:

Woe’s

me

,

O

my

brothers

,

this

is

certainly

the

same

disease

that

my

beloved

mother

died

of

.

And

she

lamented

and

shed

tears

;

and

all

Joseph’s

other

children

mourned

along

with

her

.

I

also

,

and

my

mother

Mary

,

wept

along

with

them

.

Notes

26
The argument of the Sahidic is: He sends for Joseph’s sons and daughters, of whom the oldest was Lysia the purple-seller. They all wept over their dying father.