for seven days earnestly, and afterward I will come again to thee,
and I will baptize thee from former sins,
and each one who believeth on the living God.'
After this came her husband to the king Mazdai,
and earnestly prayed the king that the queen might
speak to her sister, and try if she could
incline her mind that she might be his consort:
' I cannot entice her nor by fear compel her
to eat with me, or even to look upon me.'
Then the king permitted the queen to go thither,
and she spake straightway to her sister thus:
'Oh, thou Migdonia! my beloved sister,
why despisest thou thy husband and dishonourest thyself?
The king himself bemoaneth it, and all his men,
that thou so suddenly hast lost thy wits.'
Migdonia answered her: 'Oh! thou my sister,
knewest thou what I know, thou wouldest not have said these words;
the apostle worketh many wonders among men,
and saith to us for a truth, that there is another life,
immortal and eternal, freed from every evil.
Even to-night the prince went to visit him
because his son had suddenly died,
and led the apostle to the lifeless boy,
and he immediately raised his son from death:
now he sitteth and teacheth the faith in that house,
and healeth the sick, all who come to him.'
Triptia the queen said to her in answer:
'If it is so as thou sayest, I will see the man:
it would be foolish to despise that eternal life,
and stubborn is the man who cannot believe this.'
Then they both went to hear his preaching,
