Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 4

Saint Jacob of Edessa.

God restrains a person just as He also brings him into being. And our Lord sets those who believe, and shows how He governs them. Many distinguish and perceive what it is that one believes, even if it is something of power, and how one should act regarding testimonies. And like God, the creator, one should act, and as in the evening. The Blessed one acted from among their hands, and became for God. And how, by His hand and by His nod, He cast and built upon the earth. And everything that the Son of God created and made, and how He lives. And as if to do so for eternity, and by His nod from bonds, He went forth like an outsider, and He cried out that in Him, and He commanded humanity. Everything obeys Him, and that martyr, and original: "penn" (a term often used for a fragment or part) as a revolution. He went forth like the Blessed one who is of God, and became for humanity. And that one, like David, who said: how can one believe? Blessed is the Lord who descended to the earth, not as an angel, and performed a triumph like a human being, and how He clothed Him. By the nod of God who is eternal, that there is no Son of God. And God shall be, the being before me, that which is in the world. He gave in His name great power to speak. Like the Son of God who created God by the power of God. If you hear about an angel who comes, I do not fear, for God, in one persa manifestation/splendor, is how He strengthens me.

And everything, how the outsider becomes, and was made from the power. Not an outsider from Him, who made it with the tongue, and it came to pass. Life without end from that which is in the name of God, that which blesses and commanded from the Blessed one to that God. Life without end from His service, and it became for us.