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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza

Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913

Chapter 83

And the man also that went down for the children, when he was brought up, affirmed with oaths, saying that ‘When I put them in the basket and they were borne up I beheld as it were lightning round about them until they came unto the mouth of the well.’ And there was joy among the Christians on that day, but among the idolaters grief and offence.

But the building went forward day by day, all men working with zeal and haste; for no man was deprived of his wages, but he rendered them more than their due, giving freely to the labourers; for he said: ‘It behoveth that blessing and not a curse should be upon all the work of the building.’