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122. When the apostle had done this, he returned to the prison, found the doors open and the keepers sleeping. And Thomas said, "Who is like thee, God, who keepest thy tender love and thy zeal from none; who is like thee, merciful, who hast saved thy creatures from the evil? Life, which has overcome death; rest, which ends the toil! Glory be to the only-begotten of the Father; glory to the Merciful, who was sent out of mercy!" Having said this, the keepers woke up and saw all the doors opened, but the prisoners within. And they said within themselves, "Have we not secured the doors? How are they now opened and the prisoners within?"

123. When it was day, Charis went to Mygdonia. And he found them (both) praying and saying, "New God which has come to us through the stranger; God, hidden from the inhabitants of India; God, who hast shown thy glory through thy apostle Thomas; God, of whom we heard and in whom we believe; God, to whom we have come to be saved; God, who out of kindness and compassion didst come down to our weakness; God, who didst seek us when we did not know thee; God, who dwellest in the heights and art not hidden from the depths, take from us the madness of Charis." Upon hearing this, Charis said to Mygdonia, "Justly thou callest me bad and ugly and mad! For had I not tolerated thy disobedience and given thee freedom, thou shouldest not have called against me and remembered my name before God. But believe,