Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

Demonstration Concerning the Mysteries of Christ.

Of the sun, and from today the world, which is clear and revealing original note: "Evidenter exponit". From the beginning, for it is and from the substance of the world, He who cast the Word that the Son of Man should be. And He was also the stone, that from which the elements proceed in the ruin, while the grace breathes. The dust was born, and at the end of time His mysteries went forth, and it was measured and sent to this world from the great mysteries. For Christ was anointed, not for any other thing, but for this. Christ and the Knower draw even more blessings, while He shames with His word the evil ones, and the moderate anointing, and says, "I testify" and "that of the mysteries and these of the divinity." He says, for just as we have said, that He who was from of old, He whose body original: "His form/His body" [was seen] by the eyes and speaks by the ears, He who we saw and rejoiced at His countenance, that He is the Word of Life. And the Life appeared, and we saw and testified and declare to you the eternal Life, those who were with the Father and appeared to us. Let us understand, therefore, that concerning Him who was from of old, he said that He appeared to our eyes, and received upon Himself a body. And also the apostle Thomas, what did he say? "My Lord and my God," when he touched His side, which was opened, which was pierced by the spears, and the place of the nails which was struck in Him. And firstly, from the blessed ones who confess concerning the apostle, that they were witnesses and ministers of the Word. For He appeared...