The older brothers were loud and violent in their denunciations.

All these the persecuted young Christian met with a calm firmness, but he was at one time almost overcome by the distress of his mother.

She was at length pacified by the declarations, that he was not a follower of the English, that he derived not his creed from them, that he believed in the Trinity, that Jesus was God, and that Mary was his mother.

Phares, the youngest brother, consented to receive a New Testament, and was evidently affected and softened by the interview.
On the 16th of March, Asaad received a kind and fatherly epistle from the Patriarch, begging him to return home, and relieve the anxieties of his mother and family, and giving him full assurance, that he need not fear being interfered with in his freedom.

He was thus approached on his weak side.