Nisibis 42

He heard his voice, the evil wailer. Where then can I flee from the righteous? For Death, you hastened to slay the apostles, as you did from their flocks. Through their deaths, now more than ever, the flock is increased. A harsh shepherd, the slayer who killed him in Edessa. Before my eyes, here he is, all of him, also there. I went to there; there he was. Here and there I found him and was enraged. The apostate: Blessed is the power that dwelt in the victorious bones. The bones were carried, that merchant.

Or perhaps, then, these merchants deceived him? For they traded with one another, and what help did they give me? These merchants also helped one another, but for me, from both sides, there was loss. That is the purse of Iscariot; show me how I was standing in his power. The purse of Thomas killed me, for the hidden power that dwelt in him oppresses me. The chosen one, Moses, was mistaken in the bones, through his faith, as if it were profit. And that great sorcerer believed that there was profit in the bones. The merchant believed well, and the merchant's name was good. This merchant traded, and he increased and multiplied his treasure; much of my merchandise was his treasure. His treasure was opened in his light, and his wealth became a great city through profits. With this treasure, treasures were amazed. For it was small, its treasure at first, and as much as he took from it without pain, he was poor, for he sought its wealth. But when many surrounded it, and they plundered and seized its profits, as it is plundered, even more, its wealth increases. For the hidden spring, even if it is dammed, is even more opened. Great, also, it flows and spreads.

This is clear: Elisha was a spring for a thirsty people, and because the thirsty did not find rest in him, his refreshment was not abundant. But when the people found rest in him, he poured out and shed health, a spring into a spring. He took and cast the one from the light into the pure north. Jesus, the sea of the righteous, sent the blind man who was opened to Siloam. Gehazi with the staff strikes the dead. He could not find a youth to stand. And as the victorious one ascended, the righteous one sinned. He sinned in Sheol, a sin that was for the sake of one demon who asked. Two demons ascended and sinned against him. From the bones of Elisha he learned. Also Samuel, who brought bones to life for the dead, could not raise the dead victorious one to living and holy bones. And how much I desired this request, and he did not give it to me. That one who gives all gave it. If demons were moved by the bones of the man, the priest, or of the magicians and sorcerers, of the Chaldeans and the Pethorites, I also would have known that it was by sacrifice. I was mistaken in both sides: either I was lying about the apostles, or I was comparing my apostles to the apostles.

the veins of the demons—behold, they are emptied. The veins of the demons—the cords are drawn tight. When there is no one to raise the staff openly, the demons cry out from pains. When there is no bond and no restraint, the spirits are suspended and loose. This is a violent demon, which strikes and casts down even the one who toils in the deep. One force that cannot be withstood— behold, it settled in the bones of Elisha, the weary one. The demon gave to his twelve, as to the twelve tribes. And they became the hearts of Abraham the Great— the future apostles of the twelve. Was this not great, that to the demons of the twelve now, and not to the setting up of crosses for the demon that is destined to be broken in their own hands? For evil will be more bitter before the apostles of the judges of the tribes. For the father was the apostle Saul, and with the blood of lambs he raised his great one. And he did and became the only father, hunting for Ramseq, who from the silence of the father was changed into a lamb. He it was who said to the angels: the future apostles of the twelve. For with angels he compares the priests, as it is written. And if he who thus rules, woe to the demons from the cords of their bones.