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 me to their power. > Behold, the disobedient fall before me, because I have escaped them. Behold, it is peace to which all come."

143. When the apostle spoke thus, all those present listened, believing that he was to depart his life in this hour. And he continued, saying, "Believe in the physician of everything visible and invisible and in the redeemer of souls which need his help. He is free, descending from kings. He is the Physician of his creatures. It is he who is reviled by his own servants. He is the Father of the height and the Lord and Judge of nature. He became the highest from the greatest, the only-begotten Son of the depth. And he was called son of the virgin Mary and son of the carpenter Joseph; he whose lowliness we beheld with our bodily eyes, whose majesty, however, we have known by faith and saw it in his works; whose human body we also touched with hands, whose changed appearance we saw with our eyes, whose heavenly form, however, we could not see on the mountain; he who perplexed the princes and overcame death; he who is infallible truth and paid tribute head-piece for himself and his disciples; he at whose sight the prince became afraid and the powers combined with him were confounded. And the prince testified who and whence he was, and he did not tell him the truth, since he is a stranger to truth;