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501 Text|           stealthily to the place, and tear them in pieces alive, and
502 Text|                of the house, and being terror-struck, went forth from the palace,
503 Text|                                        Text~About that time Matthew,
504 Text|                having given praise and thanks, communicating the holy
505 Text|                and having partaken for thanksgiving of the undefiled and life-giving
506 Text|             for wherever a footstep of theirs has come, thence, pursued,
507     | thence
508     | thereafter
509 Text|               But I shall ask thee one thing, O child: that impious Herod,
510 Text|         monstrous in height, the king, thinking that Matthew was burnt up,
511 Text|              rose from the dead on the third day.~And the bishop having
512 Text|               branches shall extend to thirty cubits, and of each single
513 Text|                a presbyter, and he was thirty-seven years old; and the king'
514 Text|             palace, and ran hither and thither round the king, not letting
515 Text|              no one knowing of it, and threw it into the deep part of
516 Text|             Matthew, shall receive the throne of thy bishopric, and after
517 Text|              as thou mayst wish, or go thyself, and with thy sword kill
518 Text|                 Behold, O king, I have told thee all the truth. The
519 Text|               beautiful boy, holding a torch of fire, ran to meet them,
520 Text|             asphalt and pitch, and put tow and brushwood above. Thus
521 Text|              for the food, and for the transformation of the man-eaters: for I
522 Text|             will deliver us from every trial, and all who have believed
523 Text|                 and if any of the same tribe with him rise up against
524 Text|                and confession, saying: Truly I believe in the true God,
525 Text|         allowed to go into his palace, turned back to where Matthew was,
526 Text|               tree, and near it a vine twined round it, and honey coming
527 Text|              and there shall be a vine twining round it, full of clusters;
528 Text|                for thanksgiving of the undefiled and life-giving mysteries
529     | under
530 Text|              punishment which he is to undergo, you shall endure. And the
531 Text|        exhorted the brethren to remain undismayed, and that they should rejoice,
532 Text|             been prepared for him fire unquenchable, Gehenna without end, bubbling
533 Text|             and his robe and his tunic unstained by the fire; and sometimes
534     | until
535 Text|                now knowing Him who has upheld and made the universe; until
536 Text|             seen these things from the upper part of the house, and being
537 Text|             And when the fire had thus utterly destroyed their gods, and
538 Text|                by every contrivance of vengeance, have kindled the fire;
539 Text|             its fruit beautiful to the view and good to the sight; and
540 Text|         themselves, I the crown of the virgins, I the self-control of the
541 Text|                one, but only heard the voices of persons talking. And
542 Text|                play with the fire, and walking in it with naked feet, laugh
543 Text|                tyrant, and having been warned also by the vision of the
544 Text|             the king accompanied them, watching lest any of the Christians
545 Text|                proceeded from its root watering all the land of the city
546 Text|               of Matthew, of which the weight was a thousand talents of
547 Text|                he having confessed and wept over what he had done, having
548     | wherein
549     | wherever
550     | whether
551     | while
552 Text|              difficulty.~Therefore the wicked and unclean devil who had
553 Text|      entertaining evil counsels in the wickedness of thine heart in regard
554 Text|            married, I the boast of the widowed, I the defence of the infants,
555 Text|           executioners, like most evil wild beasts, pinned down to the
556 Text|             Really, unless he shall be willing to be taken by thee of his
557 Text|            having given up his kingdom willingly to another, whence there
558 Text|              the vine, just as any one wished.~And when what had come
559 Text|                three thousand infants, wishing to slay the child Jesus,
560 Text|        believed, began to say: Men and women who appear in our sight,
561 Text|              the sight was strange and wonderful. For the rod having straightway
562 Text|           execution of malefactors was wont to take place, saying to
563 Text|                the fire along with the wood went away froth Matthew,
564 Text|               dost thou not fulfil the works of thy father the devil?
565 Text|            without end, bubbling mire, worm that sleeps not, because
566 Text|               art thou thus put to the worse by this stranger and sorcerer?
567 Text|             down their gods which they worship; and let the fire also pursue
568 Text|                the universe; until now worshipping the Satyr, and mocked by
569 Text|               because they were deemed worthy to have the relics of the
570     | would
571 Text|               to those in his kingdom, writing thus: King Matthew, to all
572 Text|                names of yours shall be written in the heavens, and there
573 Text|            lightning, like a beautiful young man, and said to me, Since
574     | yours
575 Text|             but Matthew also; and thou Ziphagia, the wife of the king, shall