THE LATIN GOSPEL OF THOMAS;
or, the childhood of jesus, according to thomas.
CHAPTER I.
How Mary and Joseph fled with Him into Egypt.
When a commotion had been raised, because a search, had been made by Herod, after our Lord Jesus Christ that he might slay him, then an angel said, to Joseph, Take Mary and her child, and flee into Egypt from the face of those who seek to slay him. Now Jesus was two years old when he entered Egypt.
And as he walked through a corn-field, he put out his hand, and took of the ears, and put them on the fire, and crushed them, and began to eat.
Now when they had come into Egypt, they found a lodging in the house of a certain widow, and they passed one year in the same place.
And Jesus was three years old, and when he saw boys playing, he began to play with them. And he took a dry fish and put it in a bason, and ordered it to breathe, and it began to breathe. And he said again to the fish; Reject the salt which thou hast,
