Fragment 8

1“For since … the mine, there has not … Nothing good has happened to my house.”

2He advised that the men who were to throw Frontina down should also throw Paul down alive with her. Paul knew these things, but for two days he worked with the prisoners while fasting and in great cheerfulness.

3They commanded that on the third day the men … should bring out Frontina, and the whole city followed her. Firmilla and Longinus lamented, and the soldiers … But the prisoners carried the bier. When Paul saw the great mourning with the daughter and eight …

4… Paul alive with the daughter. But when Paul had taken the daughter in his arms, he groaned to the Lord Jesus Christ because of Firmilla’s sorrow and fell to his knees in the mire … praying for Frontina in prayer with her.

5At that hour Frontina arose. The whole multitude was afraid and fled. Paul took the daughter by the hand and led her through the city to the house of Longinus.

6The whole multitude said with one voice, “God is one, who made heaven and earth, who has granted the daughter life in the presence of Paul … a loaf.” And he gave thanks to him.

7“… to Philippi …”