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  1 Text|          and crying out in Hebrew: Abalo, Aremun, Iduthael, Tharseleon,
  2 Text|          this wickedness of thine; abandon this life lasting only for
  3 Text|         the Virgin Mary, immortal, abiding in flesh; and having died,
  4 Text|          in holiness thou mayst be able to know my Physician, and
  5 Text|  man-slaying serpent; renounce the abominable and wicked sacrifices of
  6 Text|          of God, while they are an abomination. And he ordered thongs of
  7 Text|            of this spirit has been accomplished in peace. And they said
  8 Text|           the enemy have ground to accuse me at Thy tribunal: but
  9 Text|      Marmare, Nachaman, Mastranan, Achaman; which is, Daughter of the
 10 Text|         lamentation at the lawless action which they had done. And
 11 Text|    creeping serpent, and he caused Adam by menus of Eve to slip
 12 Text|        encompassed me. I therefore adore the goodness of God who
 13 Text|          fell upon their face, and adored Philip, and entreated him,
 14 Text|    magicians, and no doubt commits adultery with them. And he ordered
 15 Text|    crownest those who overcome the adversary, Thou excellent Judge. Come
 16 Text|           of victory against every adverse dominion and power, and
 17 Text|    released from the troubles that afflicted her. And rising up, she
 18 Text|          from that time forth I am afraid of my wife, on account of
 19 Text|     Iduthael, Tharseleon, Nachoth, Aidunaph, Teletoloi: that is, O Father
 20 Text|          who had believed, saying: Alemakan, Ikasame, Marmare, Nachaman,
 21 Text|            of Christ, the only and Almighty God; O God, whom all ages
 22 Text|            round her; and groaning aloud, she says, Jesus the true
 23 Text|           shut the temple, and the altar has been desolated; and
 24 Text|          the true Judge, because I altogether requited you evil, and put
 25 Text|            who have struck us with amazement, detailing many punishments
 26 Text|           the form of my body into angelic glory, and give me rest
 27 Text|         led by the hand by my holy angels, and shalt come with them
 28 Text|       there is no life in him; and anger, and rage, and darkness,
 29 Text|          Philip says: Why art Thou angry with me, Lord, because I
 30 Text|           Philip had finished this announcement, he says to them, Loose
 31 Text|      compassion upon thee. And she answering, says to him: O tyrant,
 32     | anything
 33 Text|            plant that has been set apart and planted in this city
 34 Text|         Mariamme having her former appearance. And. behold, the Lord went
 35 Text|         might become worthy of the appearing of Christ.~And Philip, yet
 36 Text|        injunctions to Stachys, and appoint him bishop. Do not entrust
 37 Text|         forty days I shall send my archangel Michael; and he, having
 38 Text|       crying out in Hebrew: Abalo, Aremun, Iduthael, Tharseleon, Nachoth,
 39 Text|         the desire of the enemy is armed against the believers, and
 40 Text|         war without a full suit of armour? and what slave who has
 41 Text|            about in the street, he asked: Who are these men, and
 42 Text|          thou art of our city, and askest about these men, who have
 43 Text|         turned those who have gone astray; who crownest those who
 44 Text|             therefore, the priests attempted to lay hold of John, their
 45 Text|           father is the devil, the author of death, and his mother
 46 Text|            the plough, and looketh backwards, is his furrow well set?
 47 Text|           through us, to break thy bands, and cut them, and to remove
 48 Text|          who hast freed us through baptism from the slavery of death,
 49 Text|   Bartholomew commanded Stachys to baptize those who believed into
 50 Text|          John has come, who was in Barek, where the living water
 51 Text|           utterly to a man. And he began to curse them, invoking,
 52     | beginning
 53 Text|           entertained by a certain believer, Stachys by name. And there
 54 Text|         enemy is armed against the believers, and comes forth from the
 55 Text|        that the serpent trails his belly and his breast; and Tartarus
 56 Text|          their voices came up from beneath, saying, with weeping: Have
 57 Text|            understanding, and hast bestowed upon us the counsel of Thy
 58     | between
 59 Text|           and see how they wish to bewitch us, saying, Live in chastity
 60 Text|          you speak, when they have bewitched my own wife? And from that
 61 Text|            in the sheets of paper, bind it tight with papyrus reeds,
 62 Text|           entrust the place of the bishopric to a young man, that the
 63 Text|          might make those who were bitter against Him to taste of
 64 Text|          hang six days, and I have blame from the true Judge, because
 65 Text|       having cleansed you, set you blameless, living in truth, in the
 66 Text|            and give me rest in Thy blessedness; and let me receive the
 67 Text|       church there after James who bore the name of brother of the
 68 Text|            come into the city; and bow also the dragons have not
 69 Text|        deliver thee through us, to break thy bands, and cut them,
 70 Text|           trails his belly and his breast; and Tartarus is his dwelling-place,
 71 Text|           The dragon breathing has breathed upon you, and blinded you
 72 Text|          path of error. The dragon breathing has breathed upon you, and
 73 Text|           defiles them? Behold, my bride chamber is ready; but blessed
 74 Text|           to God, saying: Thou who bringest the dead to life, Christ
 75 Text|          season; run away from the brutality of thy worthless disposition;
 76 Text|            from my body, you shall build a church in this place;
 77 Text|          without ceasing. And they built the church in that place,
 78 Text|           shall produce fruit of a bunch of grapes; and having taken
 79 Text|            had commanded them, and buried it in that place. And there
 80     | cannot
 81 Text|       house through the side door, carried by her own slaves in a silver
 82 Text|    faithful assembled, and did not cease, all of them, glorifying
 83 Text|        forty days, praying without ceasing. And they built the church
 84 Text|        dominions and powers of the celestials, and the fire-breathing
 85 Text|            make for thyself a life chaste and pure, that being in
 86 Text|      fire-breathing threats of the cherubic living ones; the King, holy
 87 Text|         apostle, going through the cities and regions of Lydia and
 88 Text|        with thee all my life; only cleanse thyself from the idols,
 89 Text|          of the wicked, and having cleansed you, set you blameless,
 90 Text|            taste of His sweetness. Cleave then to Him, and do not
 91 Text|             after Simon the son of Clopas, who was bishop of Jerusalem,
 92 Text|            not put round me flaxen cloth, because the body of my
 93 Text|  straightway there was about her a cloud of fire before all; and
 94 Text|       grapes; and having taken the cluster, press it into the cup;
 95 Text|         against the believers, and comes forth from the darkness,
 96 Text|            Jordan. Now therefore I command you, that when I have gone
 97 Text|         master's order will not be commended? and who in the race-coarse,
 98 Text|            magicians, and no doubt commits adultery with them. And
 99 Text|            see thee from beside me committing fornication with these foreign
100 Text|          two; but let them have no communication with young men, that Satan
101 Text|        thyself that thou art their companion. Like them, so also thou
102 Text|    punishments, and shall not have compassion upon thee. And she answering,
103 Text|           that the offering may be complete.~And Philip, having said
104 Text|           this is the beginning of concupiscence. Wherefore you who wish
105 Text|    judgments of those who have not confessed the crucified One: behold.
106 Text|         the darkness, since he has confidence in nothing. Flee therefore
107 Text|        thou didst shut them up, in consequence of them praying, not only
108 Text|           Christ, the Judge of the contest. And all shouted out the
109 Text|            on our sister Mariamme, contrary to what is meet; and, behold,
110 Text|     foreigners, and magicians, and corrupters and seducers of men. For
111     | could
112 Text|          hast bestowed upon us the counsel of Thy goodness, who hast
113 Text|            she may be found in the country of her fathers in freedom,
114 Text|       heard these things, she took courage before all, crying out,
115 Text|      account thou shalt finish thy course gloriously indeed, and shalt
116 Text|       earth, whether in the flying creatures or the beasts. For everything
117 Text|            tempt them: for he is a creeping serpent, and he caused Adam
118 Text|         they worshipped, and great crowds, and the priests of the
119 Text|        Philip the apostle has been crowned with an incorruptible crown
120 Text|          who have gone astray; who crownest those who overcome the adversary,
121 Text|        punishments were prizes and crowns. And when also they had
122 Text|             and put them to a most cruel death. And having turned,
123 Text|         cluster, press it into the cup; and having partaken of
124 Text|          shared with me in all the dangers with our sister Mariamme;
125 Text|        power, and do not let their dark air hide me when I shall
126 Text|        from thee the works and the dart of the man-slaying serpent;
127 Text|           of good works, having no deceit. Take away from yourselves
128 Text|          these deceivers that have deceived many women, and young men
129 Text|            men; for she especially deceives all the women. And the tyrant
130 Text|            left the temple of that deception, and of the temporary glory,
131 Text|           priests, until he should decide by what death he should
132 Text|          Lycaonia, and it has been decreed to Mariamme to go forth
133 Text|        been filled with every evil deed; and they have also killed
134 Text|      washed his garments willingly defiles them? Behold, my bride chamber
135 Text|          of the idols, and all the demons? The dragons have withered
136 Text|       Nevertheless the sign of thy departure shall be glorified in my
137 Text|        upon the wild beasts of the desert, and they were tamed, and
138 Text|     disposition, that is, the evil desires through which the serpent,
139 Text|             and the altar has been desolated; and we have not found the
140 Text|       other thing; but I have been destined to go out of my body in
141 Text|            them, and they shall be destroyed utterly to a man. And he
142 Text|            have been struck by the destroyer. Look upon the whole creation,
143 Text|          struck us with amazement, detailing many punishments against
144 Text|         him; and his father is the devil, the author of death, and
145 Text|       abiding in flesh; and having died, He raised the dead, having
146 Text|         lying in bed under various diseases, especially of the eyes,
147 Text|        Philip: But since thou hast disobeyed me, and hast requited evil
148     | does
149 Text|      victory against every adverse dominion and power, and do not let
150 Text|   everlasting: before Thee tremble dominions and powers of the celestials,
151 Text|            these magicians, and no doubt commits adultery with them.
152 Text|         came also to Mariamme; and dragging her along, they said: Let
153 Text|          God; O God, whom all ages dread, powerful and impartial
154 Text|           and his heels also to be driven through, and to be hanged
155 Text|  Bartholomew, where my blood shall drop upon the earth, a plant
156 Text|       blood of the holy Philip had dropped. And they did all that had
157 Text|         since they came to us, our dry has been filled with every
158 Text|    dwelling-place, and dwells on a dunghill himself? And who, giving
159 Text|           of that city: Ye men who dwell in Ophioryma Hierapolis,
160 Text|            changed, and every soul dwelling in a body is in forgetfulness
161 Text|            own dwelling-place, and dwells on a dunghill himself? And
162 Text|        Judge, whose name is in Thy dynasty Sabaoth. blessed art Thou
163 Text|           him, all the people gave ear, and a great multitude of
164 Text|          suffered martyrdom in the eighth year of his reign, being
165 Text|            About the time when the Emperor Trajan received the government
166 Text|    thoroughly to try to find their enchantments. Having therefore first
167 Text|      disease and the troubles that encompassed me. I therefore adore the
168     | end
169 Text|       faith being magnified by the endurance of the saints; and all together
170 Text|    accomplish that which hath been enjoined upon me; for the Lord said
171 Text|          our sake, until He should enlarge the small, and bring them
172 Text|            has risen upon thee, to enlighten thee. ~And when Nicanora,
173 Text|            to me, ye who have been enlightened in the Lord, that I came
174 Text|           the right, you shall not enter into my kingdom. Be ye not
175 Text|             and adored Philip, and entreated him, ready to flee: Do not
176 Text|         appoint him bishop. Do not entrust the place of the bishopric
177 Text|           Mariamme, sitting in the entry of the house of Stachys,
178 Text|            teacheth have his works equal to his words. But I am going
179 Text|            among you, for you have erred in the path of error. The
180 Text|    dwelling-place, my body, having escaped from the corruption of the
181     | everything
182 Text|            threatening; and he was exceedingly enraged, and said to the
183     | except
184 Text|          been overturned, with the exception of the house which received
185 Text|     tribunal, saying to the public executioner: Strip Philip and Bartholomew
186 Text|          magicians. And the public executioners having run into the house
187 Text|          beaten, was scourged, was extended on the cross, was made to
188 Text|           they all fell upon their face, and adored Philip, and
189 Text|          and were confirmed in the faith being magnified by the endurance
190 Text|           for I see that thou hast fallen into the madness of these
191 Text|           but it is also assuredly falling down.~Then the proconsul
192 Text|         the streets of the city as far as the gate of their temple.
193 Text|          knewest us before we were fashioned; the Overseer of all: now,
194 Text|           and forgive each other's faults. Behold, I hang six days,
195 Text|           thongs, he ordered their feet to be tied, and them to
196 Text|            the abyss. And they all fell upon their face, and adored
197 Text|         the city like one of their fellow-citizens; and moving about in the
198 Text|            him. The harvest of the field is much, and blessed is
199 Text|         wife of the proconsul, and fifty other women who had believed
200 Text|          idols, and from all their filth.~And when the gloomy tyrant
201 Text|        search thoroughly to try to find their enchantments. Having
202 Text|           and saying: It will be a fine thing for thee to be cut
203 Text|            this account thou shalt finish thy course gloriously indeed,
204 Text|   everlasting.~And when Philip had finished this announcement, he says
205 Text|            the celestials, and the fire-breathing threats of the cherubic
206 Text|          days, in terror under the flaming and turning sword, and thou
207 Text|            and do not put round me flaxen cloth, because the body
208 Text|         Mariamme was, but they all fled from her.~And Philip spoke
209 Text|      Behold the lilies and all the flowers, and it is the good husbandman
210 Text|          the earth, whether in the flying creatures or the beasts.
211 Text|           all may see her, how she follows men; for she especially
212 Text|  committing fornication with these foreign magicians; for I see that
213 Text|           keep our city from every foreigner have been cast down by these
214 Text|           saying: Avenge us of the foreigners, and magicians, and corrupters
215 Text|           dwelling in a body is in forgetfulness of heavenly things; but
216 Text|            Thee in the air, having forgiven me the recompense which
217     | former
218 Text|          from beside me committing fornication with these foreign magicians;
219 Text|           sits in darkness? or who forsakes his own dwelling-place,
220 Text|        temple been shaken from the foundations, but it is also assuredly
221 Text|        beasts of the earth and the fowls of the heaven is the knowledge
222 Text|           Jesus the Lord, who hast freed us through baptism from
223 Text|          country of her fathers in freedom, having a portion in Thy
224 Text|             and what slave who has fulfilled his master's order will
225 Text|          looketh backwards, is his furrow well set? or who gives up
226 Text|           women, and young men and girls, saying that they are worshippers
227 Text|            furrow well set? or who gives up his own lamp to another,
228 Text|          their filth.~And when the gloomy tyrant her husband heard
229 Text|            not cease, all of them, glorifying God on account of the wonders
230 Text|            shalt finish thy course gloriously indeed, and shalt be led
231 Text|         the proconsul seeing them, gnashed his teeth, saying: Torture
232 Text|         leopard and the kid of the goats come into the church, for
233 Text|          serpents, the sons of our goddess; and they have also shut
234 Text|          for they have shut up our gods, and by their magic have
235 Text|        Emperor Trajan received the government of the Romans, after Simon
236 Text|          the crowd believed in the grace of Christ, and were added
237 Text|       lookest upon us, and readily grantest our requests; who knewest
238 Text|        produce fruit of a bunch of grapes; and having taken the cluster,
239 Text|          and take off him the iron grapnels, and the hooks out of his
240 Text|            and bring them into His greatness. And He it is who has sweetness;
241 Text|          case in which you see me. Grieve not, then, that I am hanging
242 Text|      turning sword, and thou shall groan because thou hast done evil
243 Text|       light shining round her; and groaning aloud, she says, Jesus the
244 Text|             let not the enemy have ground to accuse me at Thy tribunal:
245 Text|            taken hold of the sword guarding paradise, shall bring thee
246 Text|          above, the delight of the habitation which God has prepared for
247 Text|           I leave thee in bed? how hadst thou so much strength as
248 Text|         hers, he seized her by the hair of her head, and dragged
249 Text|          other's faults. Behold, I hang six days, and I have blame
250 Text|            of the wonders that had happened among them. And all the
251 Text|          that has invited him. The harvest of the field is much, and
252 Text|            the joy of the man that hates him? and what soldier goes
253     | hath
254 Text|       completely out of your mind, hating openly the father of evils,
255 Text|           to the house of Stachys, hearing about the works which Philip
256 Text|         for I am meek and lowly in heart. Let us also therefore be
257 Text|      Hebrew, and a daughter of the Hebrews; speak with me in the language
258 Text|        husbandry of the enemy, the hedge of darkness; make for thyself
259 Text|          account of His true stone held in honour, in order that
260     | hers
261     | herself
262 Text|            and pure, that being in holiness thou mayst be able to know
263 Text|         scarcely any one stayed at home; and they all wondered at
264 Text|          of His true stone held in honour, in order that through you
265 Text|            raging like an unbroken horse; and having laid hold of
266 Text|            of men and women, and a hundred virgins who had not been
267 Text|        flowers, and it is the good husbandman who is the first to get
268 Text|           the idols, which are the husbandry of the enemy, the hedge
269 Text|          in Hebrew: Abalo, Aremun, Iduthael, Tharseleon, Nachoth, Aidunaph,
270 Text|           Hierapolis, great is the ignorance which is among you, for
271 Text|        believed, saying: Alemakan, Ikasame, Marmare, Nachaman, Mastranan,
272 Text|   crucified One: behold. the cross illumines us. O Jesus Christ, manifest
273 Text|          of which also they set up images and worshipped them. Wherefore
274 Text|            out of the Virgin Mary, immortal, abiding in flesh; and having
275 Text|           ages dread, powerful and impartial Judge, whose name is in
276 Text|             Bring out for me those impostors of magicians. And the public
277 Text|           has been crowned with an incorruptible crown by Jesus Christ, the
278 Text|       women, that they may see her indecency, that she travels about
279 Text|         these things, was the more inflamed with rage, and filled with
280 Text|        hast thou been cured of the inflammation of thine eyes? Now, therefore,
281 Text|            evil? and why hast thou inflicted such destruction? O Philip,
282 Text|           were being violently and inhumanly dragged along.~And the proconsul,
283 Text|            And this is the root of iniquity, the maintenance of evils,
284 Text|          and thou shalt give these injunctions to Stachys, and appoint
285 Text|           who have walked in their innocence, and then thou shall worship
286 Text|        death; for the priests have intended to squeeze out your blood,
287 Text|            he began to curse them, invoking, and crying out in Hebrew:
288 Text|           ankles and my heels with irons. And thou, John, beloved
289 Text|          of the church there after James who bore the name of brother
290 Text|          Clopas, who was bishop of Jerusalem, had suffered martyrdom
291 Text|         what enemy rejoices in the joy of the man that hates him?
292 Text|             because we now see the judgments of those who have not confessed
293 Text|           blood; but even they who keep our city from every foreigner
294 Text|             and dragged her along, kicking her, and saying: It will
295 Text|            let the leopard and the kid of the goats come into the
296 Text|            shall not enter into my kingdom. Be ye not therefore likened
297 Text|         grantest our requests; who knewest us before we were fashioned;
298 Text|            and blessed is the good labourer. Behold the lilies and all
299 Text|         they lamented with a great lamentation at the lawless action which
300 Text|       hanging head downwards, they lamented with a great lamentation
301 Text|            or who gives up his own lamp to another, and himself
302 Text|      Hebrews; speak with me in the language of my fathers. For, having
303 Text|           thine; abandon this life lasting only for a season; run away
304 Text|           great lamentation at the lawless action which they had done.
305 Text|      saying: O Nicanora, did not I leave thee in bed? how hadst thou
306 Text|       rather rejoice, because I am leaving this dwelling-place, my
307 Text|            this place; and let the leopard and the kid of the goats
308 Text|         and the wicked dragon that lieth in wait for us. Now therefore,
309 Text|       which she spoke of; and like lightning it came upon me, so that
310 Text|       kingdom. Be ye not therefore likened to the unchanged type, for
311 Text|         and had its form after the likeness of a ladder. And all the
312 Text|          good labourer. Behold the lilies and all the flowers, and
313 Text|          of my Lord was wrapped in linen. And having prepared my
314 Text|             and thou hast not been listened to! Wherefore go away from
315 Text|         her own slaves in a silver litter, and went into the house
316 Text|             so that I was within a little of being blinded; and from
317 Text|         with a rational voice; who lookest upon us, and readily grantest
318 Text|            hand to the plough, and looketh backwards, is his furrow
319 Text|            all the multitudes were looking upon him, and weeping, and
320 Text|     announcement, he says to them, Loose Bartholomew; and having
321 Text|           and having gone up, they loosed him. And after loosing him,
322 Text|         they loosed him. And after loosing him, Philip says to him:
323 Text|           the father of evils, and loving Jesus, who is light, and
324 Text|           of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Let us also therefore
325 Text|          the cities and regions of Lydia and Asia, preached to all
326 Text|         the wife of the proconsul, lying in bed under various diseases,
327 Text|          thou hast fallen into the madness of these deceivers. Thee
328 Text|          up our gods, and by their magic have cut off both the serpents
329 Text|       confirmed in the faith being magnified by the endurance of the
330 Text|           those with him remained, maintaining the church in Christ Jesus
331 Text|          the root of iniquity, the maintenance of evils, the death of souls:
332 Text|            ones; the King, holy in majesty, whose name came upon the
333 Text|          works and the dart of the man-slaying serpent; renounce the abominable
334 Text|      illumines us. O Jesus Christ, manifest Thyself to us, because we
335 Text|           dead, having had pity on mankind, having taken away the sting
336 Text|       Apostle, and Bartholomew and Mariamme-the priests of the viper assembled
337 Text|         stretched up His hand, and marked a cross in the air coming
338 Text|         saying: Alemakan, Ikasame, Marmare, Nachaman, Mastranan, Achaman;
339 Text|            Jerusalem, had suffered martyrdom in the eighth year of his
340 Text|            flesh out of the Virgin Mary, immortal, abiding in flesh;
341 Text|        Ikasame, Marmare, Nachaman, Mastranan, Achaman; which is, Daughter
342 Text|        that being in holiness thou mayst be able to know my Physician,
343 Text|        error, because we are by no means worthy of everlasting life.
344 Text|      saying: Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Let
345 Text|           and smoke are in all his members. And now, therefore, why
346 Text|     serpent, and he caused Adam by menus of Eve to slip into death.
347 Text|         this city, not to make any merchandise, or do any other thing;
348 Text|            one, saying: I shall be merciful to you in the cross of light.~
349 Text|            shall send my archangel Michael; and he, having taken hold
350 Text|        them completely out of your mind, hating openly the father
351 Text|        Lord, because I have cursed mine enemies? for why dost Thou
352 Text|            flee: Do not do another miracle, and again send us away
353 Text|            the father, thou art my mistress, thou hast been given as
354 Text|         out your blood, and having mixed it with wine, to bring it
355 Text|          says: Go away, and do not mollify me; for I will not bear
356 Text|         their fellow-citizens; and moving about in the street, he
357     | myself
358 Text|           and he said to them: The mystery of him that was hanged between
359 Text|        Alemakan, Ikasame, Marmare, Nachaman, Mastranan, Achaman; which
360 Text|      Aremun, Iduthael, Tharseleon, Nachoth, Aidunaph, Teletoloi: that
361 Text|            opposite Philip, having nailed his hands on the wall of
362 Text|           my children, do not come near me on account of this, for
363 Text|           said to the priests: Why need you speak, when they have
364     | never
365     | Nevertheless
366 Text|         words; and praying all the night through, she speaks in a
367 Text|            the race-coarse, having nobly run, does not receive the
368 Text|         out of the abyss, and I am obliged to walk round paradise for
369 Text|          together to worship as in old times the serpents and the
370 Text|     threats of the cherubic living ones; the King, holy in majesty,
371 Text|          pray, let the great Hades open its mouth; let the great
372 Text|           out of your mind, hating openly the father of evils, and
373 Text|            will I order to be shut outside of paradise for forty days,
374     | over
375 Text|             who crownest those who overcome the adversary, Thou excellent
376 Text|      before we were fashioned; the Overseer of all: now, I pray, let
377 Text|         and how your city has been overturned, with the exception of the
378 Text|          paper, bind it tight with papyrus reeds, and bury it in the
379 Text|          of John, their hands were paralyzed. And John said to Philip:
380 Text|          avenge myself? But for my part, I shall not endure it longer;
381 Text|           into the cup; and having partaken of it on the third day,
382 Text|         ever shines, until I shall pass by all the powers of the
383 Text|          of evil, has produced the pasture of destruction and death
384 Text|         they all wondered at their patience, as they were being violently
385 Text|           Let us also therefore be patient. Philip says: Go away, and
386 Text|         her alive in Thy life, and perfect her in Thy perfection, in
387 Text|             and perfect her in Thy perfection, in order that she may be
388 Text|             and in Thy name I have persecuted all the error of the idols,
389 Text|           herself to those coming, persuading them to listen to the apostles,
390 Text|       saying, Live in chastity and piety, after believing in God;
391 Text|            bring you up out of the pit of the wicked, and having
392 Text|        raised the dead, having had pity on mankind, having taken
393 Text|        that has been set apart and planted in this city shall bear
394 Text|          thou hast been given as a pledge to the serpent; but Jesus
395 Text|            putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh backwards,
396 Text|       fathers in freedom, having a portion in Thy goodness, O Lord
397 Text|    heavenly things; but let not us possessing the glory of the heavenly
398 Text|         that his poison may not be poured out into your mouth. But
399 Text|         every adverse dominion and power, and do not let their dark
400 Text|          God, whom all ages dread, powerful and impartial Judge, whose
401 Text|           and they were tamed, and praised Thee with a rational voice;
402 Text|         regions of Lydia and Asia, preached to all the Gospel of Christ.~
403 Text|     fathers. For, having heard the preaching of my fathers, I was straightway
404 Text|          having taken the cluster, press it into the cup; and having
405 Text|             the wicked dragon, the prince of evil, has produced the
406 Text|          run, does not receive the prize? and who that has washed
407 Text|         for their punishments were prizes and crowns. And when also
408 Text|           become a vine, and shall produce fruit of a bunch of grapes;
409 Text|            the prince of evil, has produced the pasture of destruction
410 Text|             and let me receive the promise from Thee which Thou hast
411 Text|          from Thee which Thou hast promised to Thy saints to everlasting.~
412 Text|          believe; and tot Nicanora provide for them until they shall
413 Text|        these men, and why are they punished? And they say to him: It
414 Text|      corruption of the dragon, who punishes every soul that is in sins.~
415 Text|          thyself a life chaste and pure, that being in holiness
416 Text|   destruction? O Philip, whosoever putteth his hand to the plough,
417 Text|          commended? and who in the race-coarse, having nobly run, does
418 Text|           the husband of Nicanora, raging like an unbroken horse;
419 Text|            and praised Thee with a rational voice; who lookest upon
420 Text|           And he ordered thongs of raw hide to be brought, and
421 Text|           who lookest upon us, and readily grantest our requests; who
422 Text|      wishest to know that they are really, magicians, look and see
423 Text|            God, how much hast thou reasoned with them, and thou hast
424 Text|      shining garment: he it is who receives the crown upon his head.
425 Text|             having forgiven me the recompense which I recompensed to my
426 Text|          me the recompense which I recompensed to my enemies; and transform
427 Text|   stumbling-block in the way of my rectitude. And now I am going up on
428 Text|           thy Redeemer has come to redeem thee; Christ the Sun of
429 Text|         bind it tight with papyrus reeds, and bury it in the church;
430 Text|         those who flee to Thee for refuge; Thou art the Son of the
431 Text|       going through the cities and regions of Lydia and Asia, preached
432 Text|          in the eighth year of his reign, being the second bishop
433 Text|            in the goodness of God, reject the evil, that you may become
434 Text|          not sorrowful, but rather rejoice, because I am leaving this
435 Text|          goes naked? or what enemy rejoices in the joy of the man that
436 Text|          are the powers of my God, remembering what you have seen below,
437 Text|        bands, and cut them, and to remove them from thee from their
438 Text|           the man-slaying serpent; renounce the abominable and wicked
439 Text|         and those with him, having renounced the idol of the viper, and
440 Text|             Let us therefore truly repent for our great error, because
441 Text|           and readily grantest our requests; who knewest us before we
442 Text|            that the serpent has no resemblance to anything above; but he
443 Text|           Bartholomew and Mariamme restrained him, saying: Our Master
444 Text|           did not give you good in return for evil. But I say unto
445 Text|       heaven, ye are the excellent riches, and the substance of the
446 Text|           on the left to be on the right, you shall not enter into
447 Text|         and thou shall see all the righteous who have walked in their
448 Text|            thee; Christ the Sun of righteousness has risen upon thee, to
449 Text|           Sun of righteousness has risen upon thee, to enlighten
450 Text|            that afflicted her. And rising up, she went forth out of
451 Text|         but put on me Thy glorious robe, Thy seal of light that
452 Text|     received the government of the Romans, after Simon the son of
453 Text|          the abominable and wicked sacrifices of the idols, which are
454 Text|           and became small for our sake, until He should enlarge
455 Text|            fruit. Having therefore saluted the brethren, and prayed
456 Text|         who sent these men for our salvation. Let us therefore truly
457     | same
458 Text| communication with young men, that Satan may not tempt them: for
459 Text|           to the house of Stachys, sayings, Let us burn it, since he
460 Text|       crowd was assembled, so that scarcely any one stayed at home;
461 Text|        their chastity, having been sealed with the seal of Christ.~
462 Text|      Bartholomew and Mariamme, and search thoroughly to try to find
463 Text|            life lasting only for a season; run away from the brutality
464 Text|            of his reign, being the second bishop of the church there
465 Text|            them to be brought, and secured in the temple of the idol
466 Text|      magicians, and corrupters and seducers of men. For ever since they
467 Text|          the glory of the heavenly seek that which is without, which
468 Text|            these words of hers, he seized her by the hair of her head,
469 Text|            to live in chastity and self-restraint, and in fear of the true
470 Text|            behold, straightway the semblance of her body was changed
471 Text|            Bartholomew, one of the seventy disciples of the Lord, and
472 Text|           only has the temple been shaken from the foundations, but
473 Text|       Christ may not he brought to shame; and let every one that
474 Text|         that has no substance, the shapeless one that has no shape in
475 Text|          who is the first to get a share of them. And how hast thou
476 Text|           this city, and thou hast shared with me in all the dangers
477 Text|            seal of light that ever shines, until I shall pass by all
478 Text|            of the contest. And all shouted out the Amen.~And after
479 Text|        John: Let us go, and do you show me them. They led John,
480 Text|  fellow-citizen, but now thou hast shown thyself that thou art their
481 Text|        each day, watching over the sick, walking two and two; but
482 Text|           of her house through the side door, carried by her own
483 Text|            into the heavens in the sight of Philip, and Bartholomew
484 Text|          wisdom, who hast given us signs and wonders, and hast turned
485 Text|            unbelieving people, and silently they glorified God in fear
486 Text|     carried by her own slaves in a silver litter, and went into the
487 Text|    government of the Romans, after Simon the son of Clopas, who was
488 Text|            taken away the sting of sin. He was great, and became
489 Text|            them, I shall cut their sinews, and put them to a most
490 Text|     punishes every soul that is in sins.~And Philip, having looked
491 Text|            to another, and himself sits in darkness? or who forsakes
492 Text|           s faults. Behold, I hang six days, and I have blame from
493 Text|           suit of armour? and what slave who has fulfilled his master'
494 Text|           door, carried by her own slaves in a silver litter, and
495 Text|           drunk of it, might go to sleep. But if thou wishest to
496 Text|            Adam by menus of Eve to slip into death. Let it not be
497 Text|           temple.~And both of them smiled, seeing each other, both
498 Text|            darkness, and fire, and smoke are in all his members.
499 Text|        deliver you from the wicked snare of the enemy, flee from
500 Text|             Trample under foot the snares of the enemy, the writhing