'This,' said he, 'is a joyful day to me.

My blessed Lord and Master has said, Bless them that curse you; and if they strike you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also.

This I have been enabled to do; and I am ready to suffer even more than this for Him who was beaten, and spit upon, and led as a sheep to the slaughter on our account.' When they heard this, they fell to beating him anew, saying, 'Have we need of your preaching, you deceiver?
Of what avail are such pretensions as yours, who are in the broad road to perdition ?' He replied, 'He that believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, hath eternal life.' 'Ah,' said they, 'this is the way you are blinded.

Your salvation is by faith alone in Christ; thus you cast contempt on his mother, and on his saints.

You believe not in the presence of his holy body on the earth.' And they threw him on the ground, and overwhelmed him with the multitude of their blows." For three successive days he was subjected to the bastinado, by order of the Patriarch.