B0330 AAT "The apostle answered and said: 'O Christ that understands the perfect mercy! O tranquillity and silence that now speak among brute beasts! O hidden rest, that are manifested by your works, Saviour of us and nourisher, keeping us and resting in alien bodies! O Saviour of our spirits! Spring that is sweet and unfailing; fountain secure and dear and never polluted; defender and helper in the fight of your own servants, turning away and scaring the enemy from us, that fights in many battles for us and makes us conquerors in all; our true and undefeated athlete; our holy and victorious captain. Glorious and giving to your own a joy that never passes away, and a relief wherein is none affliction; good shepherd that gives yourself for your own sheep, and have vanquished the wolf and redeemed your own lambs and led them into a good pasture. We glorify and praise you, and your invisible Father the Holy Spirit, and Wisdom the Mother of all creation." (The Eastern Bible: Acts of the Apostle Thomas 2:63)