Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents/Extracts Concerning Abgar and Addaeus/Chapter 8

by Various

VIII.

From the homily about the town of Antioch.^[1]

To Simon was allotted Rome,^[2] and to John Ephesus; to Thomas India, and to Addæus the country of the Assyrians.^[3]  And, when they were sent each one of them to the district which had been allotted to him, they devoted themselves^[4] to bring the several countries to discipleship.

Footnotes

1. From Cod. Add. 14,590, of the eighth or ninth century.
2. [A note of the Middle Age.  The reverse is taught in the Scriptures, but even Hebrew Christians slurred the name of Paul.]
3. This is probably the correct reading:  the printed text means “among the Assyrians.”—Tr.
4. Lit. “set their faces.”—Tr.