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 which also you have now seen. For as he said, so also it has come to pass." Some believed her, and some not. And when the King heard of it, he came and said to the apostle, "Rise up and go with me, and pray for my daughter. For she is my only child and to-day I give her away." And the apostle would not go with him, for the Lord had not yet been revealed to him there. But the King took him away against his will to the bridal chamber, that he might pray for them.

10. And the apostle stood, and began to pray and speak thus: "My Lord and my God, who accompanies thy servants, guide and leader of those who believe on thee, refuge and repose of the afflicted, hope of the poor and deliverer of the captives, physician of the souls that are lying under disease, and Saviour of every creature, who gives life to the world and invigorates the souls, thou knowest the future, who also accomplishes it through us; thou, Lord, who revealest hidden mysteries and declarest secret words; thou, Lord, art the planter of the good tree and by thy hand all good works are produced; thou, Lord, art in all, and comest through all, and exists in all thy works and makest thyself manifest through the working of all; Jesus Christ, the Son of compassion and perfect Saviour; Christ, Son of the living God, the undaunted Power which has overthrown the enemy; the voice, heard by the rulers, which shook all their powers; messenger, sent from on high, who wentest down even to Hades; who also, having opened the