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THE GOSPEL OF NICODEMUS, OR ACTS OF PILATE (I.)
Acts of our Lord Jesus Christ wrought in the time of Pontius Pilate.
Prologue.
I, Ananias, a provincial warden, being a disciple of the law, from the divine Scriptures recognised our Lord Jesus Christ, and came to him by faith, and was also accounted worthy of holy baptism. Now when searching the records which were made in the time of our Lord Jesus Christ, which the Jews laid up under Pontius Pilate, I found that these records were written in Hebrew, and by the good pleasure of God I translated them into Greek for the information of all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, under the government of our lord Flavius Theodosius, the 17th year, and in the 6th consulate of Flavius Valentinianus, in the 9th indiction.[1]
- ↑ The dates given in the consular tables do not agree in all editions, but I do not find any in which the seventeenth of Theodosius and the sixth of Valentinian come together. The seventeenth consulate of Theodosius is by some placed in a.d. 441, and the fifth of Valentinian in 442; while the eighteenth of Theodosius falls in 446, and the sixth of Valentinian in 447. The ninth indiction, according to Dufresnoy, falls in 441. We may therefore correct the text by reading the seventeenth consulate of Theodosius, and the fifth of Valentinian, which would be a.d. 441-2. The Coptic has the fifth of Valentinian, and the Latin the eighteenth of Theodosius.
