Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 6

The Holiness of Mar Jacob

And he stood by the river, which is the Gennesaret the Sea of Galilee, and the pure souls were there, and they ascended, and they were rejoicing. They praised the Power that acts in mystery, for He placed a flame in the tears that are pure and clean. Oh, the flame of the servants of the waters and the good works; all of it is held in the unity of the Lord, structured like the Godhead.

The entire company fell from the river after they had crossed it, and they called for the Urha Edessa/The City of the Fathers and for their brothers. Peace descended, and purity, and they ascended from the struggle, and they entered into the fire so that their beauties might be refined. They rejoice for their fathers, and they entered—what good things are they, that they did not ask for them after their brothers? For that Lord who crowned them and magnified them, did not leave from among them a single survivor who was not seen. Like what—as if in blood He entered upon their fathers, and magnified them, so that all the deception would fear them. The entire company fell from the river as if in a struggle, and with many bodily powers so that they might receive. Bodily eyes see them, and they all stood in tears, so that souls and tears might be humbled or 'tested' without fatherhood.

He sees, however, from Him, that which became for them a greater king original: "1. he has it", at the time they went out; they did not go out from Him, the body. A distant land was there by the river, and he was hoping for their fathers.