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Click to Expand/Collapse OptionIntroduction
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionSpread of the Christian faith to India (1)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionKing Abenner of India, his childlessness and persecution of Christian monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOne of the King’s servents becomes Christian and the King upbraids him in a dialogue (2)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant’s sermon: Rage and Greed are our worst enemies
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe servant explains why he became a monk
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King had decided to torture the servant to death, but instead chases him away
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionA most beautiful son is born to the King
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionVice men phrophecy that the son will be not a King of this world, but another, and will be Christian (3)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King places his son in a palace in luxurious isolation from all the suffering of the world
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe King’s formost and most noble servant brings home a sick man from the hunt; but he is a Christian, and the other servants plot against him before the King (4)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe sick man advices the nobleman how to cope with the King’s rage, and the King forgives him, but continues his persection of Monks
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionOut hunting, the King meets monks, talks with them and then burns them
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince wonders why he cannot go out of the palace, and one of his teachers then says that it is because the King does not want him to hear about Christian teachings (5)
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince asks the King to go out, and he is allowed to go to places which are only pleasant.
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees a leper and a blind, and becomes very depressed
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince sees an old and crippled man on the next trip out, and is told he soon will die, as humans will
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionThe Prince goes home and reflect on death, in sorrow
Click to Expand/Collapse OptionBy the calling of the Holy Spirit the monk Barlaam seeks admission to the prince as a trader, with the pretext of selling him a jewel
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914, p. 38,1
Ἀλλ', εἰ βούλει, φασί, βεβαιωθῆναι μηδὲν ἡμᾶς πεπλασμένον λέγειν, καλέσας αὐτὸν ἰδίως, εἰπὲ πειράζων βούλεσθαί σε, καταλιπόντα τὴν πάτριον θρησκείαν καὶ τὴν δόξαν τῆς βασιλείας, Χριστιανὸν γενέσθαι, καὶ τὸ μοναχικὸν περιβαλέσθαι σχῆμα, ὃ πάλαι ἐδίωξας, ὡς οὐ καλῶς δῆθεν τούτου γεγενημένου.
Jacobus Billius Prunaeus, 1577 A.D., Migne no. 73, col. 454a1
Quod si pro certo scire cupis, inquiunt, nihil nos fingere atque comminisci, privatim ei, tentandi ipsius causa, dic te relicta patria religione ac regni gloria, Christianam fidem amplecti, habitumque monasticum, quem olim tanquam parum honestum persecutus es, induere velle.
G.R. Woodward, H. Mattingly, 1914
“But,” said they, “if thou wilt prove that our charge is not ungrounded, call him to thee privately; and, to try him, say that thou desirest to leave thy fathers’ religion, and the glory of thy kingship, and to become a Christian, and to put on the monkish habit which formerly thou didst persecute, having, thou shalt tell him, found thine old course evil.”
Keyser & Unger p. 9,1
Herra sagðu þeir. nu er auðsynt at sa hinn riki maðr er lengi hevir þinn vinr kallazt oc gott at þer lotet. man nu at ollu hafna oc firirlata guð var. en brott kasta þinni vinatto. oc taka við tru kristinna manna. oc a þat ovan man hann vilia svikia rikit undan þer. þviat hann leitar nu a fund fatœkra manna oc þyðizt þeirra vinatto oc felagskap.1 En ef þu villt verða sannfroðr um at þetta se eigi lygri eða upplost. þa leið þu hann a einmæle við þik oc tel þik buinn vera at taka við kristinna manna tru oc munkka bunaðe. oc hygg at hverssu honom bregðe þa við.
1. Cf. two records above.
H.E.Kinck, 1852 p. 16,1
"Herre!” sagde de, “nu er det let at se, at den mægtige Mand, som længe, har gjældt for din Ven og nydt Velgjerninger af dig, nu ganske vil forkaste og forlade vore Guder, men bortkaste dit Venskab og antage de Christnes Tro; og oven i Kjöbet vil han nok ved Svig beröve dig Riget, thi han söger nu Selskab med fattige Mænd og tilsmigrer sig deres Venskab og Forbund. Men dersom du vil blive overbevist om, at det ikke er Lögn eller Opspind, da tal med ham i Enrum, og erklær at du er beredt til at antage de Christnes Tro og Munkes Dragt, og læg Mærke til, hvad Indtryk det gjor paa ham!”
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