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die with Him, saying: Let us too go forth and die with Him. 
Thou seekest what thou knewest not before: the way, the 
—_ the life. 
isbelieving in Christ’s wonders, thou findest true 
life: hte sap His Humanity, thou confessedst 2 Deity, 
whence our strength grows stronger r and our happines 
Having thus discovered truth, thou ie aa Christ’s 
staunch witness, a great preacher to the world, the baptiser of 
three kings.! : 
5. ith His own lips Christ speaks thy praise, saying 
thou wilt tis His servant true: for, oo et thou gainedst, 
thou broughtest to Christ without reserv 
At the nuptial feast, O bareaty muser, res eatest 
and drinkest naught ; but, looking always up to hea 
_ Thou afflictest thy flesh and blessest chastity! "With 
the pone given thee, kind father of the 
u buildest a palace and raisest ea ‘ite the King’s 
own masther, and thas presently thou winnest over the King 
himself and his people.” 
9. Thus, curing all the sick, thou passest preaching 
everywhere. Next, thou art pierced with lances and art 
crowned a martyr 
10. Thou despisest error; thou destroyest unbelievers : 
for, in the city where thou oe liest, there never lives any 0 
the heretics, Jews, or scare 

! The wax referred to may be: the King of 8: of Sandaruk (Cranganore 2) 
and king aie peg ares and his brother Age t King Mazdai seems to be 
out of the ques The very early texts place his coliverkioe stot the 
at ec i 
Coromandel Coast, the king of Malabar, and the king of ‘ Pandi,’ or of 
the Pandyans. Bice would leave out king Gaspar, or the Perumal of 
J — neg of the three Magi 
2 The Bollandiet text 0 s a comma after benedictor and a full stop 
after egenorum. It should be the reverse. 
or the allusions see Mgr. Medlycott, India and the Apostle Thomas, 
pp. 255-256 ; Mer. Zaleski, The Apostle St. Thomas, pp. 1: 8-109. ‘The king 
as ef mi 
dishes t t before him, nor of the wine whi a en 
brought from Revie: si ous the bottom of his heart he invoked up e 
lessing of the L ” (Zaleski, op. cit., 1 After the 
epast, the Saint ee <a married couple ; and, accordi ing to the texts 
which have been spoil e G a in favour of thei tenets against 
marri 
ak ime ee atanes 
* Ci. Mgr. Medlycott. op. cit., am "337-258 ; Mgr. Zaleski, op. cét.. PP- 
109-123. Gondophares gives order to St. Thomas ss build a ~ palace. 
brother to sell him the palace which St. Thomas shinabuib in heaven. Both 
are converted, and. on one occasion, ae preaching from Mt. Gazi, St. 
~——— baptises 9,000 of their subjec 
* If the reference is to Mylapore. the St. Thomas Christians, consider- 
