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us With looks of compassion, and maintain Within us, against
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What it is expedient for you to do. Toli me, then, Whether any iresti resolution has been como to by you, and whetheryou have in any respect changed your miud in regard toyour former purpose; and obey the command of the most divine semperori. For thus mill you be restored to the enio ment of your property and possessio , yea of this most cheering light also. To this the martyrs reply: No one ullo is mise Would mahe any great account os continuing for a littio whilo in tho enjoyment of things Whicli are but transient. Suffcient for us is the timo atready past for the me and thosiot of them; nor do me feel the want of any of them. That death, on the contra , With Whicli thou art threateningus Wili convey us to imperishable habitations and give us a participation in tho happiness Whicli is yonderi The governor replied : What you have said has filled myears With great sadness. However, I mill explain to youwhat is determined on : is you placo incense on the altar and sacrifice to the image of Jupiter, ali Will bo well, and each ot
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to the emperosa commanti, Fou may be rescued hom a very bittis deast. Foe, it you behave With such excessivo daring and arroganee, What can you expect but stat severer punishments are in stom for you, under the pressum of
Dur oWn accord is deseruing of compassion. The com fessors and martyrs of Christ said: There needs not many motas. For lol κε aro ready to undergo est the punishmenta thou mayest lay upon us. What, theretors, has been commanded thee, delay not to perform. For me are tho
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comed it Was no misti ot mino that you inould lose your lives; but tho inflexibis command of the emperor is me compelamo to this. Ho then orderia a halberdior is tari charge of the martyra, and, pulting them in a carriage, to convey themto a distance trem the city With somo soldiora, and there to
account of What happened to the mamrs. But forasmuch as the number mugiit for a stird in ordis
that in them the Trinity might be glorified, it found, in
admirabie providencol Habib at a subsequent time inde :but he also, along With those Who bad preceded him, had determined to enter on the journey, and on the very dayy of
thela martyrdom reached his consummation. Habib, then, great among martyrs, Was a native of the fame place as thennamely of the village of Thelsaea; and he had the honouros boing invested mith the sacred office of the diaconate. Bus when Licinius sWayed the sceptre of the Roman empiro and Lysanias had been appotnted governor os Edessa, a pe secution mas again raised against the Christians, and tho
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generat danger threatened Habib. For he would go about tho ci , teaching the divino Scriptures to ali ho met mist, and conragmusty mehing to strengthen them in filio practico of pio . When this camo to the ears of Lysanias, he gave information os it to tho Emporor Licinius. For he waa anxious to bo himself antrusted with tho businem os bringingsto Christiana in triat, and especialty Habib: lor he had
and that in this Way he might himseli bs in jeoparis for
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light by tho solemn dignity of the judiciat seat; and ho hinhim at ones put on his triat. He inquired of him his condition ot illa, his name, and his country. On his ans ering that he was a native of tho village of Thelsam, and intimatingthat he was a minister of Christ, the governor immediatelychargod the martyr With not obving the emperosa commands. Ho insisted that a plain proos of this was his resusQto offer incense to Jupiter. To this Habib hept replying that he was a Christian, and could not forsaho the true God, or sacrifice to the liteless Works of fmen'H hands whieli hiano sensation. The governor hereupon ordered, that his a s
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and intractabie spirit. Thereupon, some Wood Was collected together at a place oulside the city on the norinward, and
he was ted in tho pile, solioWed by his mollier, and also by
of tho liso of the martyr Ηabib in tho timo of Licinius, and thus did lis obtain the privilege of being laid with the sainis,
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150 APPENDIX TO SYRIAC DOCUMENTS MOS ES OF CHORENT
Abgar, son os Archam, ascends the throne in the twentiethyear of Archavir, hing of the Perstans. This Abgar Wascalled ΑVah-air lareat man , on account os his great genti ness and wisdom, and also on account of his siete. Not Ming te to pronounce well, the Greelis and the Syrians callediam Abgar. In the second year of his reign, ad the districta es Armenia becomo tributary to the Romans. A commandis given by the Emperor Augustus, as Wo are told in the Gospei of St. Luhe, to number ali the peopte in every pari.
Roman commissionem, sent for that purpose into Armenia, carried inither the statue of the Emperor Augustus, and setit up in ali the temples. At this very time, our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Son os God, camo into the Worid. At tho samo period thera Was troubie belWeen Abgar and Herod: for Herod wishod that his statue should bo erected noar to that os Caesar in tho temples of Armenia. Abgar ithstood this claim. Moreovor, Herod mas but seining apretexi to attach Abgar: he sent an army of Thracians and Germans to maho an incursion into the counto of tho Pa stans, missi orders to pasa through tho territories of Abgari
But Abgar, far hom submitting to this, resisted, saying that
the emperor's command was to march sto imops into Persia
through the deseri. Herod, indignant, and unable to act is himself, overWhelmed With troubles, as a punishment for his miched conduci to ards Christ, as Josephus relates, sent his
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Munding of tho tom ol Edessa-Bries account of tho mos es o Illuminatori
A litus While aster ards, Augustus dies, and Tiberius b eomes emperor of the Romans in his sisad. Germanicus, having beeome Caesar, Magging in his train the prinoes of tho hingdom ot Archavis and of Abgar, celebrates a triumphin respect of the war Waged With them, in Which thesophinees had hilled Herod's nephew. Abgar, indignant, forma plans os revolt and prepares himseli sor combat. He bulldsa toWn on the ground occupied by the Armenian amy of servation, Where previo ly the Euphrates hin been d fandod against the attempta os Cassius: this ne town is ealled Edessa. Abgar removed to it his couri, Whicli mas atmdapine, ali his gods, Naboc, Bel, Patnicagh, and Tarata, tho books ot the schoola attached in the temples, and evenino rorat archives. Aster this, Archavir Ming deat Ardaebhs, his son, migna over tho Perstans. Though it is not in the order of the hi tory miih respect to time, nor even the order according towhicli ne have begun these annals, yet, as We are treating of the descendants of tho hing Arctavir, even of tho blood os Ardaelita his son, We Will, to do honour in these princes, placestem, by anticipating the time, neu to Ardachis, in orderthat tho reader may knon that they are of the fame race, of tho race ot tho bravo Archag; then κε mill indicate sto timeos tho arrival of their fathers in Armenia, the Garentans and tho Sourenians, hom Whom St. Gregory and tho Gamsariansare descended, When, tollo ing the order of evenis, We comoto the reign os the king under Whom they appeared.
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152 APPENDIX TO SYRIAC DOCUMENTRAbgar did not suemed in his plans os revolt; sor, tro tes
Abgar comis into the East, maintaina Ardactea umn tho throno es Persia Reconcitea hia brothera trom Whom our Illuininator and hiarelationa aro descendest
Abgar, having gone to the East, finds on tho throno ofPersia Ardaches, son of Archavir, and tho brothers of A dacties contending against him: for this princo thought toreign over them in his posteri , and they Would not consentio it. Ardachhs thereiore hems them in on ali fides, hangsthe s ord os death over their heada; distractions and dissension Were betWeen their troops and their other relations and