Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents/Extracts Concerning Abgar and Addaeus/Chapter 4

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IV.

Addæus^[1] preached at Edessa and in Mesopotamia (he was from Paneus^[2]) in the days of Abgar the king.  And, when he was among the Zophenians, Severus the son of Abgar sent and slew him at Agel Hasna, as also a young man his disciple.

Footnotes

1. Extracts iv. and v. are from Cod. Add. 14,601, fol. 164, written apparently in the eighth century.
2. i.e., Paneas.—Tr.