{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081457.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081457.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081457.htm","text":"From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols. 2955\nTo Edessa he made his journey, and found in it a great work:\nFor the king was become a labourer for the church, and was building it.\nThe apostle Add\u00e6us stood in it like a builder,\nAnd King Abgar laid aside his diadem and builded with him.\nWhen apostle and king concurred the one with the other,\nWhat idol must not fall before them?\nSatan fled to the land of Babylon from the disciples,\nAnd the tale of the crucifixion had got before him to the country of the Chaldeans.\nHe said, when they were making sport of the signs of the Zodiac, that he was nothing.\nFrom Cod. Add. 14,624, apparently written in the ninth century.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents.: Part VII","type":"page"}