The Apocalypse of Paul from the Ancient Writings of The Set-Apart Bible. Read free with the Sacred Names (Yahweh, Yahshua, Elohim) and audio narration.
1 Oxford: Oxford University Press , pages 525, 555
2 APOCALYPSE OF PAUL
3 Epiphanius tells us that the Caianites or Cainites had forged a book full of unspeakable matter in the name of Paul , which was also used by those who are called Gnostics, which they call the Anabaticon of Paul, basing it on the words of the apostle, that he was taken up into the third heaven. This has left no trace ( Heresy , 38. 2).
4 St. Augustine laughs at the folly of some who had forged an Apocalypse of Paul, full of fables, and pretending to contain the unutterable things which the apostle had heard. This is, I doubt not, our book. (Aug. on John, Tract 98.) Sozomen , in his Ecclesiastical History (vii. 19), says: The book now circulated as the Apocalypse of Paul the apostle, which none of the ancients ever saw, is commended by most monks; but some contend that this book was found in the reign we write of (of Theodosius). For they say that by a Divine manifestation there was found underground at Tarsus of Cilicia, in Paul's house, a marble chest, and that in it was this book. However, when I inquired about this, a Cilician, a priest of the church of Tarsus, told me it was a lie. He was a man whose grey hairs showed him to be of considerable age, and he said that no such thing had happened in their city, and that he wondered whether the tale ( or , the book) had not been made up by heretics.