VII.
From the homily composed by the holy Mar Jacob, the teacher, on the fall of idols.
To Edessa he made his journey, and found in it a great
work:
For the king was become a labourer for the church, and
was building it.
The apostle Addæus stood in it like a builder,
And King Abgar laid aside his diadem and builded with
him.
When apostle and king concurred the one with the
other,
What idol must not fall before them?
Satan fled to the land of Babylon from the
disciples,
And the tale of the crucifixion had got before him to
the country of the Chaldeans.
He said, when they were making sport of the signs of the
Zodiac, that he was nothing.