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Ma’asei Andreas — Chapter 31 - Maximilla's Separation and the Hidden Meetings

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Maximilla increasingly received Andreas's ascetic teaching and withdrew from marital relations with Aegeates.

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While Aegeates was away in Macedonia, Andreas taught in the praetorium and many gathered around him.

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When Aegeates returned unexpectedly, fear spread through the group.

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Andreas prayed that the believers be protected until they could depart safely.

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Aegeates was suddenly prevented from entering.

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Andreas dismissed the believers one by one.

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Maximilla continued to seek Andreas's instruction.

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A fragment quoted by Evodius preserves a more controversial episode omitted by Gregory.

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According to that fragment, Maximilla arranged for her servant Euclia to take her place with Aegeates at night.

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The substitution continued until Euclia attempted to use the secret against Maximilla.

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Other servants exposed the arrangement.

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Aegeates punished Euclia and the informants with extreme violence.

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HaSefarim preserves this material as an ancient hostile quotation from the lost Acts, not as an independently surviving continuous chapter. primitive Acts.

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