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Apocriticus
Macarius Magnes, tr. Crafer, 1919
Book 4: The Christian (Introduction to his answer in eight chapters)
The Christian
(Introduction to the answers of Macarius to the objections of Chapters I to X.)
After all this boasting and terribleness of speech, the ears of those who stood by were full of fear, and the understanding of our chosen witnesses was contracted. We, perceiving the canon of the New Testament thus trampled underfoot, were smitten in mind and sick in soul, and troubled in every bodily sense, so that we almost said, “Lord, save us, we perish.” Encircled by so great a storm of cunning devices, but encouraged by some unseen assistance, we stood facing the hurricane which came down upon us, making the Holy Spirit our ally against the face of it. Then, like men rowing in a boat, we began to ply the oars of our tongue and hastened to smite the first of the waves.