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Then did Ioasaph embrace the good father, with all the devotion and sorrow that can be told, and washed his corpse with his tears. Then he wrapped it in the hair-shirt, which Barlaam had given him in his palace; and over him he recited the proper psalms, chanting all the day long, and throughout the night, and watering the venerable body of the Saint with his tears. On the morrow, he made a grave hard by the cave, and thither reverently bore the sacred body, and there, like a good and honourable son, laid his spiritual father in his sepulchre. And then, the fire of grief kindling all the hotter within his soul, he set himself to pray the more earnestly, saying:

"O Lord my God, hearken unto my voice, when I cry unto you. Have mercy upon me, and hear me, for I seek you with all my heart. My soul has sought for you: O hide not your face from me, and turn not away in anger from your servant. Be you my helper; cast me not utterly away, and forsake me not, O God my Saviour, because my father and mother forsake me; but do you, O Lord, take me up. Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the souls of them that afflict me; for I have been cast upon you ever since I was born; you are my God even from my mother's womb. O go not from me, because, except you, there is none to help me. For lo, I set the hope of my soul upon the ocean of your mercies. Be you the pilot of my soul, you that steerest all creation with the unspeakable forethought of your wisdom; and shew you me the way that I should walk in; and, as you are a good God and a lover of men, save me by the prayers and intercessions of Barlaam your servant, for you are my God, and you I glorify, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen."

Thus prayed he, and sat him down nigh the sepulchre, a-weeping. And as he sat, he fell asleep, and saw those dread men, whom he had seen before, coming to him, and carrying him away to the great and marvellous plain, and bringing him to that glorious and exceeding bright city. When he had passed within the gate, there met him others, gloriously apparelled with much light, having in their hands crowns radiant with unspeakable beauty, such as mortal eye has never seen. And, when Ioasaph enquired, "Whose are these exceeding bright crowns of glory, which I see?" "Thine," said they, "is the one, prepared for you, because of the many souls which you hast saved, and now made still more beautiful because of the religious life that you leadest, if you continue therein bravely until the end. And this other crown is your also; but it must you give unto your father, who, by your means, turned from his evil way unto the Lord, and was truly penitent." But Ioasaph was as one sore vexed, and said, "How is it possible that, for his repentance alone, my father should receive reward equal to mine, that have laboured so much?" Thus spoke he, and straightway thought that he saw Barlaam, as it were, chiding him and saying, "These are my words, Ioasaph, which I once spoke unto you, saying, 'When you waxest passing rich, you wilt not be glad to distribute,' and you understoodest not my saying. But now, why art you displeased at your father's equality with you in honour, and art not rather glad at heart that your orisons in his behalf have been heard?" Then Ioasaph said unto him, as he was ever wont to say, "Pardon! father, pardon! But shew me where you dwellest?" Barlaam answered, "In this mighty and exceeding fair city. It is my lot to dwell in the mid-most street of the city, a street that flasheth with light supernal." Again Ioasaph thought he asked Barlaam to bring him to his own habitation, and, in friendly wise, to shew him the sights thereof. But Barlaam said that his time was not yet come to win those habitations, while he was under the burden of the flesh. "But," said he, "if you persevere bravely, even as I charged you, in a little while you shalt come hither, and gain the same habitations, and obtain the same joy and glory, and be my companion for ever." Hereupon Ioasaph awoke out of sleep, but his soul was still full of that light and ineffable glory; and greatly wondering, he raised to his Lord a song of thanksgiving.

And he continued to the end, verily leading on earth the life of an angel, and after the death of his aged friend using himself to severer austerity. Twenty and five years old was he when he left his earthly kingdom, and adopted the monastic life; and thirty and five years in this vast desert did he, like one dis-fleshed, endure rigours above the endurance of man, but not before he had delivered the souls of many men from the soul-devouring dragon, and presented them to God, saved for aye; winning herewith the Apostolic grace. In will he had proved a martyr, and had with boldness confessed Christ before kings and tyrants, and had proved himself the mighty-voiced preacher of his greatness, and had overthrown many spirits of wickedness in the desert, and had overcome all in the strength of Christ. Partaking richly of the gift of grace from above, he kept his mind's eye purified from every earth-born cloud, and looked forward to the things that are to come, as though they were already come. Christ was his recompense for all: Christ was his desire: Christ he ever saw as present with him: Christ and his fair beauty everywhere met his sight, according to the saying of the prophet, "I have set God always before me; for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall." And again, "My soul cleaveth to you; your right hand has upholden me." For verily Ioasaph's soul clave to Christ, being knit to him in indissoluble union. From this marvellous work he never swerved, never altered the rule of his ascetic life, from beginning to end, but maintained his zeal from his youth even until old age; or rather, he daily advanced higher in virtue, and daily gained purer power of vision.

Thus did Ioasaph spend his days, and render unto him that called him labour worthy of his calling, having crucified the world to himself, and himself unto the world, and, at the last, departed in peace unto the God of peace, and passed to that Master whom he had alway longed for. There he appeared in the immediate presence of the Lord, and was crowned with the crown of glory already prepared for him: there it is granted to him to behold Christ, to be with Christ, to rejoice for ever in the fair beauty of Christ, into whose hands he commended his spirit, when he departed to walk in the land of the living, where is the song of them that feast, the dwelling-place of them that rejoice.

As for his venerable body, it befell thus; about the very hour of Ioasaph's death, there came by divine revelation, from one of the neighbouring cells, a certain holy man. It was the same that once pointed out to Ioasaph his way to Barlaam. This man honoured the corpse with sacred hymns, and shed tears, the token of affection, over him, and performed all the last Christian rites, and laid him in the sepulchre of his father Barlaam; for it was only meet that their bodies should rest side by side, since their souls were to dwell through eternity together.

In obedience to the strict command of a dread Angel that appeared to him in a dream, this hermit, who had performed the last rites, journeyed to the kingdom of India, and, entering in to King Barachias, made known unto him all that had befallen Barlaam, and this blessed Ioasaph. Barachias, making no delay, set forth with a mighty host, and arrived at the cave, and beheld their sepulchre, and wept bitterly over it, and raised the gravestone. There he descried Barlaam and Ioasaph lying, as they had been in life. Their bodies had not lost their former hue, but were whole and uncorrupt, together with their garments. These, the consecrated tabernacles of two holy souls, that sent forth full sweet savour, and showed naught distressful, were placed by King Barachias in costly tombs and conveyed by him into his own country.

Now when the people heard tell of that which had come to pass, there assembled a countless multitude out of all the cities and regions round about, to venerate and view the bodies of these Saints. Thereupon, sooth to say, they chanted the sacred hymns over them, and vied one with another to light lamps lavishly, and rightly and fitly, might one say, in honour of these children and inheritors of light. And with splendour and much solemnity they laid their bodies in the Church which Ioasaph had built from the very foundation. And many miracles and cures, during the translation and deposition of their relics, as also in later times, did the Lord work by his holy servants. And King Barachias and all the people beheld the mighty virtues that were shown by them; and many of the nations round about, that were sick of unbelief and ignorance of God, believed through the miracles that were wrought at their sepulchre. And all they that saw and heard of the Angelic life of Ioasaph, and of his love of God from his childhood upward, marvelled, and in all things glorified God that always works together with them that love him, and grants them exceeding great reward.

Here ends this history, which I have written, to the best of my ability, even as I heard it from the truthful lips of worthy men who delivered it unto me. And may God grant that all we that read or hear this edifying story may obtain the heritage of such as have pleased the Lord, by the prayers and intercessions of blessed Barlaam and Ioasaph, of whom this story tells, in Christ Jesus our Lord; to whom belongs worship, might, majesty and glory, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, now and for evermore, world without end. Amen.

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Ὁ δὲ Ἰωάσαφ, περιχυθεὶς τῷ πατρὶ μεθ' ὅσης ἂν εἴποις τῆς εὐλαβείας καὶ οἰμωγῆς, δάκρυσί τε τὸ λείψανον λούσας, καὶ τῷ τριχίνῳ ῥακίῳ, ὅπερ αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ παλατίῳ παρέσχεν, περιελίξας, τοὺς νενομισμένους ἐπιλέγει ψαλμούς, διὰ πάσης τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ τῆς νυκτὸς ὅλης ψάλλων ἅμα καὶ δάκρυσι τὸ τίμιον τοῦ μάκαρος βρέχων σῶμα. τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ ἡμέρᾳ, τάφον ποιήσας ἐχόμενον τοῦ σπηλαίου, καὶ εὐλαβῶς ἄγαν τὸ ἱερὸν λείψανον διαβαστάσας, ἐν τῷ μνήματι κατέθετο τὸν πνευματικὸν πατέρα ὁ καλὸς υἱὸς καὶ τιμιώτατος. καὶ θερμότερον ἐκκαυθεὶς τὴν ψυχήν, εἰς ἐκτενεστέραν τε συντείνας εὐχὴν ἑαυτόν, ἔφη:

Κύριε, ὁ Θεός μου, εἰσάκουσον τῆς φωνῆς μου ἧς ἐκέκραξα: ἐλέησόν με καὶ εἰσάκουσόν μου, ὅτι σε ἐκ καρδίας μου ζητῶ. ἐξεζήτησέ σε ἡ ψυχή μου: μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, καὶ μὴ ἐκκλίνῃς ἐν ὀργῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ δούλου σου. βοηθός μου γενοῦ: μὴ ἀποσκορακίσῃς με, καὶ μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με, ὁ Θεὸς ὁ Σωτήρ μου, ὅτι ὁ πατήρ μου καὶ ἡ μήτηρ μου ἐγκατέλιπόν με: σὺ δέ, Κύριε, προσλαβοῦ με. νομοθέτησόν με, Κύριε, ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ σου, καὶ ὁδήγησόν με ἐν τρίβῳ εὐθείᾳ, ἕνεκα τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου. μὴ παραδῷς με εἰς ψυχὰς θλιβόντων με, ὅτι ἐπὶ σὲ ἐπερρίφην ἐκ μήτρας, ἀπὸ γαστρὸς μητρός μου Θεός μου εἶ σύ: μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πλὴν σοῦ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ βοηθῶν μοι. ἰδοὺ γὰρ εἰς τὸ πέλαγος τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν σου τὴν ἐλπίδα ἐθέμην τῆς ψυχῆς μου: κυβέρνησόν μου τὴν ζωήν, ὁ πᾶσαν τὴν κτῆσιν ἀρρήτῳ σοφίας προνοίᾳ κυβερνῶν, καὶ γνώρισόν μοι ὁδὸν ἐν ᾗ πορεύσομαι. καὶ σῶσόν με, ὡς ἀγαθὸς Θεὸς καὶ φιλάνθρωπος, εὐχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις τοῦ θεράποντός σου Βαρλαάμ, ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ Θεός μου, καὶ σὲ δοξάζω τὸν Πατέρα, καὶ τὸν Υἱὸν καὶ τὸ Ἅγιον Πνεῦμα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.

Ταῦτα εὐξάμενος, πλησίον τοῦ μνήματος ἐκάθισε κλαίων. καὶ καθεζόμενος ὕπνωσε. καὶ ὁρᾷ τοὺς φοβεροὺς ἄνδρας ἐκείνους, οὓς καὶ πρότερον ἑωράκει, ἐλθόντας πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ ἀπαγαγόντας αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν μεγίστην καὶ θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην πεδιάδα, καὶ πρὸς τὴν δεδοξασμένην καὶ ὑπέρλαμπρον εἰσαγαγόντες πόλιν. εἰσερχομένῳ δὲ αὐτῷ τὴν πύλην ἕτεροι ὑπήντουν πολλῷ κατηγλαϊσμένοι φωτί, στεφάνους ἔχοντες ἐν χερσὶν ἀρρήτῳ διαλάμποντας κάλλει καὶ οἵους ὀφθαλμοὶ οὐδέποτε βρότειοι ἐθεάσαντο. ἐρομένου δὲ τοῦ Ἰωάσαφ, Τίνος οἱ στέφανοι τῆς δόξης οἱ ὑπέρλαμπροι, οὓς ὁρῶ; Σὸς μὲν ὁ εἷς, ἔφησαν, ὑπὲρ τῶν πολλῶν σοι ψυχῶν ὧν ἔσωσας κατασκευασθείς, κοσμηθεὶς δὲ νυνὶ πλέον ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀσκήσεως ᾗ μετέρχῃ, εἴπερ ἀνδρείως ταύτην ἕως τέλους διέλθῃς: ὁ δὲ ἕτερος σὸς μὲν καὶ αὐτός: ἀλλὰ τῷ πατρί σου δεῖ σε τοῦτον παρασχεῖν, τῷ διὰ σοῦ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἐκκλίναντι τῆς πονηρᾶς καὶ μετανοήσαντι γνησίως τῷ Κυρίῳ. ὁ δὲ Ἰωάσαφ δυσχεραίνοντι ἐῴκει: καί, Πῶς δυνατόν, φησίν, ἴσων ἐμοῦ, τοῦ τοσαῦτα κοπιάσαντος, τυχεῖν τὸν πατέρα μου δωρεῶν ὑπὲρ μόνης τῆς μετανοίας; εἶπε ταῦτα, καὶ τὸν Βαρλαὰμ εὐθὺς ἐδόκει βλέπειν ὀνειδίζοντα οἱονεὶ καὶ λέγοντα: Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι μου, Ἰωάσαφ, οὕς ποτέ σοι, Ὅταν ὑπερπλουτήσῃς, ἔλεγον, οὐκ εὐμετάδοτος ἔσῃ: καὶ αὐτὸς ἠπόρεις ἐπὶ τῷ ῥήματι. νυνὶ δὲ πῶς ἐδυσχέρανας ἐπὶ τῇ ἰσοτιμίᾳ τοῦ πατρός σου, καὶ οὐ μᾶλλον εὐφράνθης τὴν ψυχὴν ὅτι εἰσηκούσθη σου ἡ πολλὴ περὶ αὐτοῦ δέησις; ὁ δὲ Ἰωάσαφ, ὡς εἴθιστο ἀεὶ λέγειν αὐτῷ, Συγχώρησον, ἔφη, Πάτερ, συγχώρησον. ποῦ δὲ αὐτὸς οἰκεῖς γνώρισόν μοι. Ἐν ταύτῃ, φησί, τῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ περικαλλεῖ πόλει: οἰκεῖν ἔλαχον ἐν μεσαιτάτῃ τῆς πόλεως πλατείᾳ φωτὶ καταστραπτομένῃ ἀπλέτῳ. ἀξιοῦν δὲ αὖθις ὁ Ἰωάσαφ ἐδόκει τὸν Βαρλαὰμ εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἀπαγαγεῖν αὐτὸν σκήνωμα καὶ φιλοφρόνως ξεναγῆσαι. ἀλλ' οὔπω τὸν καιρὸν ἥκειν, ἔλεγεν ἐκεῖνος, πρὸς ἐκεῖνά σε τὰ σκηνώματα ἐλθεῖν, ἔτι τῷ φορτίῳ τοῦ σώματος ὑποκείμενον. Εἴπερ οὖν ἀνδρείως καρτερήσεις, καθάπερ σοι ἐνετειλάμην, ἥξεις μικρὸν ὕστερον, καὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀξιωθήσῃ σκηνωμάτων, τῆς αὐτῆς τεύξῃ χαρᾶς τε καὶ δόξης, καὶ συνδιαιωνίζων ἔσῃ μοι. ἔξυπνος δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοις γενόμενος, ὁ Ἰωάσαφ τοῦ φωτὸς ἐκείνου καὶ τῆς ἀρρήτου δόξης εἶχε τὴν ψυχὴν ἔτι πεπληρωμένην, καὶ σὺν πολλῷ τῷ θαύματι τῷ Δεσπότῃ χαριστήριον ἀνέπεμπεν ὕμνον.

Ἔμεινε δὲ μέχρι τέλους τὴν ἀγγελικὴν ἀληθῶς ἐπὶ γῆς ἀνύων διαγωγήν, καὶ σκληροτέρᾳ ἀσκήσει μετὰ τὴν παρέλευσιν τοῦ γέροντος χρώμενος: πέμπτῳ μὲν καὶ εἰκοστῷ τῆς ἡλικίας ἔτει τὴν ἐπίγειον καταλιπὼν βασιλείαν καὶ τὸν ἀσκητικὸν ὑπελθὼν ἀγῶνα, πέντε δὲ καὶ τριάκοντα χρόνους ἐν τῇ πανερήμῳ ταύτῃ ἀσκήσας, ὥσπερ τις ἄσαρκος, τὴν ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον ἄσκησιν, πολλὰς μὲν πρότερον ψυχὰς ἀνθρώπων τοῦ ψυχοφθόρου δράκοντος ἀποσπάσας καὶ τῷ Θεῷ προσαγαγὼν σεσωσμένας, καὶ ἀποστολικῆς ἐν τούτῳ χάριτος ἀξιωθείς, μάρτυς δὲ τῇ προαιρέσει γενόμενος, καὶ παρρησίᾳ τὸν Χριστὸν ἐνώπιον βασιλέων ὁμολογήσας καὶ τυράννων, καὶ κήρυξ μεγαλοφωνότατος τῆς αὐτοῦ μεγαλειότητος ἀναφανείς, πολλὰ δ' αὖ πάλιν πνεύματα πονηρίας ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ καταπαλαίσας, καὶ πάντων τῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ περιγενόμενος δυνάμει, καὶ τῆς ἄνωθεν πλουσίως μετασχὼν δωρεᾶς τε καὶ χάριτος, ἐντεῦθεν κεκαθαρμένον τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα πάσης περιγείου ἀχλύος εἶχεν, ὡς παρόντα δὲ τὰ μέλλοντα προεθεώρει, καὶ Χριστὸς ἦν αὐτῷ ἀντὶ πάντων, Χριστὸν ἐπόθει, Χριστὸν ὡς παρόντα ἑώρα, Χριστοῦ τὸ κάλλος διὰ παντὸς ἐνωπτρίζετο, κατὰ τὸν Προφήτην τὸν λέγοντα: Προωρώμην τὸν Κύριον ἐνώπιόν μου διὰ παντός, ὅτι ἐκ δεξιῶν μοῦ ἐστιν ἵνα μὴ σαλευθῶ: καὶ αὖθις: Ἐκολλήθη ἡ ψυχή μου ὀπίσω σου: ἐμοῦ δὲ ἀντελάβετο ἡ δεξιά σου. ἐκολλήθη γὰρ ὄντως ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ὀπίσω τοῦ Χριστοῦ, συναρμοσθεῖσα αὐτῷ ἀρραγεῖ συναφείᾳ. οὐ μετετράπη τῆς θαυμαστῆς ταύτης ἐργασίας, οὐκ ἠλλοίωσε τὸν κανόνα τῆς ἀσκήσεως ἑαυτοῦ, ἀπ' ἀρχῆς μέχρι τέλους, ἴσην τηρήσας τὴν προθυμίαν ἐκ νεωτέρας μέχρι τῆς τοσαύτης ἡλικίας, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ εἰς ὑψηλοτέραν ὁσημέραι προκόπτων τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ καθαρωτέρας ἀξιούμενος θεωρίας.

Ἀμέλει τοιαύτην πολιτευσάμενος πολιτείαν καὶ οὕτως ἀξίαν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κλήσεως ἐργασίαν ἀποδεδωκὼς τῷ καλέσαντι, σταυρώσας τὸν κόσμον ἑαυτῷ καὶ ἑαυτὸν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἐν εἰρήνῃ πρὸς τὸν τῆς εἰρήνης ἀναλύει Θεόν, καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἀεὶ ποθούμενον ἐκδημεῖ Δεσπότην, καὶ τῷ προσώπῳ Κυρίου ἀμέσως καὶ καθαρῶς ἐμφανίζεται, τῷ τῆς ἐκεῖθέν τε δόξης ἤδη προηυτρεπισμένῳ αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ κοσμεῖται, καὶ Χριστὸν βλέπειν καταξιοῦται, Χριστῷ συνεῖναι, Χριστοῦ τῷ κάλλει διὰ παντὸς ἐναγάλλεσθαι, οὗπερ εἰς χεῖρας τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχὴν παραθέμενος, ἐν τῇ τῶν ζώντων μετεφοίτησε χώρᾳ, ἔνθα ἦχος ἑορταζόντων, ἔνθα τῶν εὐφραινομένων ἡ κατοικία.

Τὸ δέ γε τίμιον αὐτοῦ σῶμα ἐκ γειτόνων αὐτῷ τὰς οἰκήσεις ποιούμενός τις ἀνὴρ ἅγιος, ὃς καὶ τὴν πρὸς Βαρλαὰμ πορείαν ἐκείνῳ ποτὲ ὑπέδειξε, θείᾳ τινὶ μυηθεὶς ἀποκαλύψει κατ' αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν τῆς τελειώσεως αὐτοῦ παραγίνεται, καὶ ὕμνοις ἱεροῖς τιμήσας, δάκρυά τε κατασπείσας, σύμβολον τοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸν πόθου, τἄλλα δὴ τὰ νενομισμένα Χριστιανοῖς πάντα τελέσας, ἐν τῷ τοῦ πατρὸς ἔθετο Βαρλαὰμ μνήματι. συνεῖναι γὰρ ἔδει τὰ σώματα ὧν αἱ ψυχαὶ συνδιαιωνίζειν ἔμελλον ἀλλήλαις.

Προστάγματι δέ τινος φοβερωτάτου κατ' ὄναρ κραταιῶς ἐπισκήπτοντος πεισθείς, ὁ τοῦτον κηδεύσας ἀναχωρητὴς τὰ βασίλεια καταλαμβάνει Ἰνδῶν, καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαραχίᾳ προσελθὼν πάντα αὐτῷ δῆλα τὰ περὶ τοῦ Βαρλαὰμ καὶ τοῦ μακαρίου τούτου τίθησιν Ἰωάσαφ. ὁ δέ, μηδὲν μελλήσας, ἀπέρχεται αὐτὸς μετὰ δυνάμεως ὄχλου, καὶ τῷ σπηλαίῳ ἐφίσταται, τὸ μνῆμά τε θεωρεῖ, καί, τούτῳ θερμότατα ἐπιδακρύσας, αἴρει τὸ κάλυμμα. καὶ ὁρᾷ τόν τε Βαρλαὰμ καὶ τὸν Ἰωάσαφ ἔχοντας τὰ μέλη κατὰ σχῆμα κείμενα, καὶ τὰ σώματα οὐδὲν τοῦ προτέρου χρωτὸς παραλλάττοντα, ὁλόκληρα δὲ καὶ ἀκριβῶς ὑγιῆ σὺν τοῖς ἐνδύμασι. ταῦτα τοίνυν τὰ ἱερὰ τῶν ἁγίων ψυχῶν σκηνώματα, πολλὴν ἐκπέμποντα τὴν εὐωδίαν καὶ οὐδὲν ὅλως ἀηδὲς ἐπιδεικνύμενα, θήκαις ἐνθεὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τιμίαις, εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδα μετακομίζει.

Ὡς δὲ εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἔπιπτε τοῦ λαοῦ τὸ γεγονός, πλῆθος ἀριθμοῦ κρεῖττον ἐκ πάντων τε τῶν πόλεων καὶ τῶν περιχώρων εἰς προσκύνησιν καὶ θέαν συνέρρεον τῶν μακαρίων σωμάτων ἐκείνων. ἔνθεν τοι καὶ ὕμνους ἐπ' αὐτοῖς τοὺς ἱεροὺς ᾄσαντες, καὶ λαμπάδας φιλοτίμως ἀνάψαντες (ἀκολούθως, ἄν τις εἶπεν, ἐκεῖ καὶ λίαν οἰκείως τὰ φῶτα περὶ τοὺς τοῦ φωτὸς υἱούς τε καὶ κληρονόμους), λαμπρῶς δὲ ὁμοῦ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶς ἐν τῇ ἐξ αὐτῶν κρηπίδων παρὰ τοῦ Ἰωάσαφ ἀνεγηγερμένῃ κατέθεντο ἐκκλησίᾳ. πολλὰ δὲ θαύματα καὶ ἰάσεις ἔν τε τῇ μετακομιδῇ, ἔν τε τῇ καταθέσει, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς χρόνοις διὰ τῶν ὁσίων αὐτοῦ θεραπόντων ἐποίησε Κύριος. καὶ εἶδεν ὁ βασιλεύς τε Βαραχίας καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος τὰς δι' αὐτῶν γενομένας δυνάμεις, καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν πέριξ ἐθνῶν, ἀπιστίαν νοσοῦντες καὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄγνοιαν, διὰ τῶν γινομένων ἐν τῷ μνήματι σημείων ἐπίστευσαν. καὶ πάντες οἱ ὁρῶντές τε καὶ ἀκούοντες τὴν ἀγγελομίμητον τοῦ Ἰωάσαφ πολιτείαν καὶ τὸν ἐξ ἁπαλῶν ὀνύχων διάπυρον αὐτοῦ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν πόθον, ἐθαύμαζον δοξάζοντες ἐν πᾶσι τὸν Θεόν, τὸν ἀεὶ συνεργοῦντα τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτὸν καὶ μεγίσταις τούτους ἀμειβόμενον δωρεαῖς.

Ἕως ὧδε τὸ πέρας τοῦ παρόντος λόγου, ὃν κατὰ δύναμιν ἐμὴν γεγράφηκα, καθὼς ἀκήκοα παρὰ τῶν ἀψευδῶς παραδεδωκότων μοι τιμίων ἀνδρῶν. γένοιτο δὲ ἡμᾶς, τοὺς ἀναγινώσκοντάς τε καὶ ἀκούοντας τὴν ψυχωφελῆ διήγησιν ταύτην, τῆς μερίδος ἀξιωθῆναι τῶν εὐαρεστησάντων τῷ Κυρίῳ, εὐχαῖς καὶ πρεσβείαις Βαρλαάμ τε καὶ Ἰωάσαφ τῶν μακαρίων, περὶ ὧν ἡ διήγησις, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ πρέπει τιμή, κράτος, μεγαλωσύνη τε καὶ μεγαλοπρέπεια, σὺν τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι νῦν καὶ ἀεί, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.