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 had said, "The Lord appeared unto me in the tomb in the form of John and in that of a youth." For as much, therefore, as they were perplexed and were in a manner not yet confirmed in the faith so as to endure it steadfastly, John said:

88. "Men and brethren, ye have suffered nothing that is strange or incredible as concerning your conception of the < Lord >, inasmuch as we also, whom he chose for himself as apostles, were tried in many points, I, indeed, am neither able to set forth to you nor to write the things which I both saw and heard: and now it is needful that I should fit them to your hearing; and according as every one of you is capable I will communicate unto you those things whereof ye are able to become hearers, that ye may see the glory that is about him, which was and is both now and for ever.

"For when he had chosen Peter and Andrew, who were brethren, he cometh to me and to my brother James, saying, I have need of you, come unto me. And my brother said as follows: John, that child that called to us upon the shore, what does it want? And I said, What child? He replied, the one that is beckoning to us. And I answered, Because of our long watch which we kept at sea thou seest not aright, my brother James: but seest thou not the man that standeth there, fair and comely and of a cheerful countenance? But he