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 unto them and said, "Forget not the former things! For Jesus, the Holy and Living, will himself help you." And as Misdai and Charis and those around them did not persuade them, they allowed them to live according to their own will. And all the brethren there assembled together. For, when Judas was led to death, he had made Sifôr a presbyter in the mountain, and Vazan a deacon. And the Lord helped them and increased the faith by means of them.

170. And after a long time it happened that one of the sons of King Misdai was a demoniac; and the demon being stubborn, no one was able to treat him. And Misdai considered and said, "I will go and open the grave and take one of the bones of the apostle of God and touch my son with it, and I know that he shall be cured." And he went away to do what he intended. And Judas appeared unto him and said, "Since thou hast not believed in the living, how wilt thou believe in the dead? But be not afraid. Jesus the Messiah is kindly disposed to thee through his great goodness." And Misdai found not the bones. For one of the brethren had taken them away secretly and carried them into the regions of the West. And he took dust from the place where the bones of the apostle had lain, touched his son with it, and said, "I now believe on thee, Jesus, after he has forsaken me, who always confuses men, that they see