Extracts from Various Books Concerning Abgar the King and Addæus the Apostle 7From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols.

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VII. From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols.

To Edessa he made his journey, and found in it a great work:

For the king was become a labourer for the church, and was building it.

The apostle Addaeus stood in it like a builder,

And King Abgar laid aside his diadem and builded with him.

When apostle and king concurred the one with the other,

What idol must not fall before them?

Satan fled to the land of Babylon from the disciples,

And the tale of the crucifixion had got before him to the country of the Chaldeans.

He said, when they were making sport of the signs of the Zodiac, that he was nothing.