Ælfric

Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Abdon and Sennes

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Ælfric,  Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Abdon and Sennes

“ After this preaching the king offered the preacher
a good portion of gold and of silver as a gift,
but he would take nothing as meed
for his wonderful power, or his mighty preaching;
and said to the king; 'We have forsaken our possessions
and have abandoned our own, why should we take those of another man?'
This was thus accomplished, and thereafter the true faith
ever continued in that nation,
to the praise of the Saviour who liveth ever in eternity. Amen. ”
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Ælfric,  Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Abdon and Sennes

“ Tell me, I pray thee, truly concerning the Saviour
how He came to men and departed from the world.'
Thaddeus answered Abgarus and said,
'I am sent to preach; bid thy citizens come
all together at early morning
that I may declare to them all Christ's advent,
and [speak] concerning His wonders which He wrought in life.'
Then the king bade the men of his city come,
and Thaddeus preached to them boldly concerning Christ,
and told all of them the true faith,
and the redemption of mankind through the mild Saviour ”
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Ælfric,  Ælfric's Lives of Saints — Of Abdon and Sennes

“ I must first fulfil the things for which I am sent,
and I must afterward be taken to the same who sent Me;
and I will send to thee after I am taken up
one of my disciples who shall heal thy infirmity,
and prepare [eternal] life for thee and those that believe with thee.'
Then this letter came straightway to the king,
and the Saviour provided, after He had ascended to Heaven,
that He should send to the king, as He had before spoken,
one of the seventy whom He had chosen to preach,
who was called Thaddeus, that he might heal the king. ”
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