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GERASIMAS ADDRESSES THE SAINTS. 573<br />

Gerasimas said unto them, "How did ye come to<br />

"know of His advent and of the birth of our<br />

"Redeemer?" And they answered and said unto<br />

him, "Didst thou never read what God said unto Adam to be<br />

"Adam, 'Fear not, O Adam, after five days" and Jter"" five<br />

"a half I will come down and deliver thee?' And^"* ^<br />

days.<br />

^^^^<br />

"Adam said, 'How wilt Thou come down and<br />

"deliver me? Wilt Thou leave the chariots of the<br />

"Cherubim and the holy place of the Seraphim?'<br />

"Then God stretched out His right hand and<br />

"shewed him one of His fingers, and He said<br />

"unto him, 'This [alone] can deliver thee from thy<br />

"sins." And Adam turned round and saw Jesus<br />

"Christ crucified upon the wood of the Cross, and<br />

"he said, 'Thy Will be done, O Lord;' and God<br />

"hid Himself from him. Now it was after Adam<br />

"and Eve had gone forth from Paradise that all<br />

"these things took place." And again they spake<br />

unto Gerasimas, saying, "We knew that five<br />

"thousand five hundred years must be completed The Annun-<br />

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"[before the<br />

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ciation<br />

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And we saw theoabriei.<br />

by<br />

"Archangfel Gabriel descending to Zachariah the<br />

"priest," and he related to him concerning the birth<br />

"of [p. 369] John, but Zachariah would not believe<br />

"the voice of the angel, and Gabriel said unto<br />

"him, 'Thou shalt be dumb until all these my<br />

"words shall be fulfilled.' And in the sixth month^<br />

' TAe Book of Adam and Eve (ed. Malan, p. 4), chap. iii.<br />

^ St. Luke i. II.<br />

3 St. Luke i. 26 fif.

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