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Ma’asei Kepha — II. The Gardener’s Daughter — Indirect Fragment

Work ID: 6a9dbd3a4dd73f6a953d7f6b · Chapter ID: 6a9dbd3abfce3fe869b9ee63 · Canonical title: Ma’asei Kepha

G1

A gardener asks Kepha to pray for his only daughter, a virgin.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12112 · English · translation

G2

Kepha answers that the Master will give her what is beneficial for her nefesh.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12113 · English · translation

G3

The young woman immediately dies.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12114 · English · translation

G4

Her father cannot accept the loss and begs Kepha to restore her.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12115 · English · translation

G5

She is raised, but not long afterward a servant lodging in the household sexually ruins her and the two disappear.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12116 · English · translation

G6

The episode survives only indirectly, through Augustine's reference and a Pseudo-Titus excerpt; it is therefore preserved here as an attributed fragment, not as a continuous manuscript page.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12117 · English · translation

G7

A related saying warns a grieving parent that death may spare a child from assaults of the Deceiver, bodily struggle, and disasters that the living cannot foresee.

Passage ID 6a9dbd3d233a541660e12118 · English · translation

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