' Thou art a noble artificer, and shouldest work for kings.'
Then the king entrusted to Christ's workman '
an unnumbered sum to further the work,
and rode throughout his towns as far as his kingdom extended.
Then went Thomas about, freely preaching
God's faith everywhere throughout the land,
and baptized the believing; and dealt the money
munificently to the poor, and reared Churches.
Then it so befell that he inclined unnumbered
folk to the faith, and established Churches,
and ordained priests for the Saviour's service
within two years, before the renowned king
Gondophorus returned to the province again.
Then it was thus made known to the king,
and he bade bind both the men with fetters,
Abbanes and Thomas, and thrust them roughly
into a dark prison, until they should be slain.
Then the king's brother was lying, despairing of his life,
who was called Gad, very dear to Gondophorus,
and he therefore delayed what he should do with them.
While he desired to torture them for a spectacle,
then Gad departed from the world to hell.
Then they kept the body in the heathen manner,
and the brother desired to 'wake' him worthily,
and to conduct his funeral with royal honours.
Then on the fourth day, suddenly in the morning,
arose that same Gad, raised up by God;
and the corpse-bearers were wondrously affrighted
by reason of the new wonder, that he Avas brought to life.
Then cried the requickened one, and said to his brother:
'Hearken now, my brother, concerning the holy man,
him whom thou desiredst to torture for a spectacle;
