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Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents · Ancient Syriac Documents

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Addæus2948 preached at Edessa and in Mesopotamia (he was from Paneus2949 ) 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.

Notes

  1. 2948

    Extracts iv. and v. are from Cod. Add. 14,601, fol. 164, written apparently in the eighth century.

  2. 2949

    i.e., Paneas.—Tr.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.