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132 honour father and mother; ponder the law of God, and abide in his commandments, be right in faith and good in works, holy-minded, pure in spirit, and single-hearted, and unflinching in love.

"This is the law of the faith of Christ. Know, O king, that the true God is Jesus Christ, son of the Holy Virgin Mary, crucified by the Jews. And his commandments are true and there is no other god but he."

The Armenian Barlaam and Josaphat ends as follows:

The Greek text of Barlaam and Josaphat was first printed in Boissonade's Anecdota, Paris 1832; and his text is reprinted in Migne's Patrologia Græca. Most of the Greek MSS. ascribe it to John of Damascus. Others name John the Monk, an honourable and virtuous member of the monastery of Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, as the person who brought this edifying history from the interior of the land of the Ethiopians, called the Indians. The Greek narrator professes to have gathered his narrative from the lips of respectable persons, who faithfully handed it on to him. But a few Greek MSS. (e.g. MS. 137 of the Bibliotheca