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The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour

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Section 14

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14. Thereafter they came into another city, where

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there

was

a

demoniac

woman

whom

Satan

,

accursed

and

rebellious

,

had

beset

,

when

on

one

occasion

she

had

gone

out

by

night

for

water

.

She

could

neither

bear

clothes

,

nor

live

in

a

house

;

and

as

often

as

they

tied

her

up

with

chains

and

thongs

,

she

broke

them

,

and

fled

naked

into

waste

places

;

and

,

standing

in

cross

-

roads

and

cemeteries

,

she

kept

throwing

stones

at

people

,

and

brought

very

heavy

calamities

upon

her

friends

.

And

when

the

Lady

Mary

saw

her

,

she

pitied

her

;

and

upon

this

Satan

immediately

left

her

,

and

fled

away

in

the

form

of

a

young

man

,

saying

:

Woe

to

me

from

thee

,

Mary

,

and

from

thy

son

.

So

that

woman

was

cured

of

her

torment

,

and

being

restored

to

her

senses

,

she

blushed

on

account

of

her

nakedness

;

and

shunning

the

sight

of

men

,

went

home

to

her

friends

.

And

after

she

put

on

her

clothes

,

she

gave

an

account

of

the

matter

to

her

father

and

her

friends

;

and

as

they

were

the

chief

men

of

the

city

,

they

received

the

Lady

Mary

and

Joseph

with

the

greatest

honour

and

hospitality

.