THE LEGEND OF ST. THOMAS. 
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Lord will be witli you,' and lie left them in tlie place and went 
away. 
But when the bridegroom lifted the curtain which separated . 
him from his bride, he saw Thomas, as he supposed, conversing 
with her. Then he asked in surprise, how canst thou be found 
here, did I not see thee go out before all ? And the Lord 
answered I am not Judas Thomas, but his brother. And the 
Lord sat down and ordered them also to sit down and called on 
them to remember what his brother had said to them. He 
taught them all the anxieties, troubles and temptations which 
result from the procreation of children, and promised them 
that, if they kept themselves chaste, they should partake of 
the true marriage and enter the bride chamber full of light and 
immortality. The young couple obeyed this exhortation much 
to the grief of the king, who ordered Thomas to be apprehended ; 
but he and Abbanes were already on their way and so escaped 
his hands. 
And when they came into the cities of India, Abbanea 
brought him into the presence of the king. And Gondophares 
asked, wilt thou be able to build me a palace ? I shall begin, 
said Thomas, in October and end in April. And the Apostle, 
having taken a reed, measured the place and marked it out, 
and he set the doors towards the rising of the sun to look to the 
light and the windows towards its setting to look to the winds ; 
and he made the bake-house to be towards the south and the 
water-tank, for abundance, towards the north. And the king, 
seeing this, said to the Apostle : Thou art a craftsman indeed 
and it is fitting that thou shouldest serve kings. 
Large advances of gold and silver the Apostle received to 
pay the workmen withal, but these he dispensed to the poor. 
And when the time came, the king asked whether the palace 
was finished, and the Apostle said that it was. And when shall 
we go to see it ? Now thou canst not see it, but when thou hast 
departed this life thou shalt see it. And the king, being angry, 
thrust Thomas into prison and was meditating how he should 
be killed ; but his brother Gad was so afltected by the insult 
thus oflFered to the king that he suddenly died. And in the 
other world he saw a palace so beautiful that he begged the 
