Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 2

Discourse of the one hundred and twenty-fourth King.

And the seed of the king blossomed within her. Mar-Ya See, oh Elder, this is much greater: that he is bright and triumphant from the very beginning. But are you from the world and from the prophets: that God is in the womb that he built? Shimon See, oh King, at what I am belittling: that not even a word is in its original: "ܒܚܝܠܗ" — in his power/strength entirety. That strength which belittles something by its light: by means of the face of humility. Mar-Ya It is well heard by me that he assembles: the sons of Jerusalem in his breath. And if it is true as they say: he was fashioned in a body like everyone else. Shimon It is well true what you have heard: he was fashioned in a body like everyone else. And he faded from the Elder and did not disappear: and he ascended to the heavenly name and was glorified. Mar-Ya I know you to be glorious and high: you are a living death and high. If you deny that he is alive: and if you did not deny, you begat death. Shimon The learned one knows and lets us know: that all that is learned in me, I am complete in it. And all that is strange in me, in it is strange: they have it in the kingdom of heaven. Mar-Ya I have heard of the complete one that he begat him: and they descended into the womb. And against my kingdom he will not be seen: and you will deceive the glorious Romans. Shimon When the king's child puts on original: "ܠܒܫܗ" — he put it on: against the king (he who made him king). And do you not know, oh high one: that height and depth are in the likeness of a seal? Mar-Ya Are not these his boundaries that he established: he who believed that he made him king? And if the sons of the city do not hide them: the body [is not]...