APOCRYPHON OF JEREMIAH

There is current in Ethiopic, usually appended to the canonical Book of Jeremiah, a short prophecy,
which Dillmann prints and translates in his Chrestomathia Aethiopica p. viii. I believe it to exist also in
Coptic.

A PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH

And Jeremiah spake thus unto Pashur: But ye all your clays fight against the truth, with your fathers and
your sons that shall come after you. And they shall commit a sin more damnable than you: they shall sell
him who hath no price, and shall hurt him who will heal pain, and shall condemn him who will forgive
sin, and shall take thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom the children of Israel
shall sell, and shall give that money for the potter's field. As the Lord commanded me, so I speak. And
therefore shall there come upon them judgment and destruction for ever, and upon their sons after
them, because in their judgment they have shed innocent blood.

Other Fragments:

And the Lord God of Israel remembered the dead which slept in the dust of the earth, and came down
unto them to preach His salvation. Justin Martyr (Dial. with Trypho)

Behold, O Jerusalem, thy redeemer cometh, and this shall be his sign. He shall open the eyes of the blind
and restore hearing to the deaf, and by his voice he shall raise the dead. Latin Acts of St. James the
Great

By his burying the dead shall be made alive. St. Silvester in his Acts

In the Roman edition of the works of Ephraem Syrus (ii. p. 405), iii in the midst of the Syriac Testament
of Ephraem is suddenly interpolated the following piece of Syriac verse, which has no link of connection
with its context and therefore is a separate work. We simply title this small apocryphon: