emperor, and it resembleth nothing to our money; and how may it come from thy lineage so long since, and thou art young, and wouldst deceive the wise and ancient men of this city of Ephesus?  And therefore I command that thou be demened after the law till thou hast confessed where thou hast found this money.  Then Malchus kneeled down tofore them and said:  For God’s sake, lords, say ye to me that I shall demand you, and I shall tell to you all that I have in my heart.  Decius the emperor that was in this city, where is he?  And the bishop said to him there is no such at this day in the world that is named Decius, he was emperor many years since.  And Malchus said:  Sire, hereof I am greatly abashed and no man believeth me, for I wot well that we fled for fear of Decius the emperor, and I saw him, that yesterday he entered into this city, if this be the city of Ephesus.  Then the bishop thought in himself, and said to the judge that, this is a vision that our Lord will have showed by this young man.  Then said the young man:  Follow ye me, and I shall show to you my fellows which be in the mount of Celion, and believe ye them.  This know I well, that we fled from the face of the Emperor Decius.  And then they went with him, and a great multitude of the people of the city with them.  And Malchus entered first into the cave to his fellows, and the bishop next after him.  And there found they among the stones the letters sealed with two seals of silver.  And then the bishop called them that were come thither, and read them tofore them all, so that they that heard it were all abashed and amarvelled.  And they saw the saints sitting in the cave, and their visages like unto roses flowering, and they, kneeling down, glorified God.  And anon the bishop and the judge sent to Theodosius the emperor, praying him that he would come anon for to see the marvels of our Lord that he had late showed.  And anon he arose up from the ground, and took off the sack in which he wept, and glorified our Lord.  And came from Constantinople to Ephesus, and all they came against him, and ascended in to the mountain with him together, unto the saints in to the cave.

And as soon as the blessed saints of our Lord saw the emperor come, their visages shone like to the sun.  And the emperor entered then, and glorified our Lord and embraced them, weeping upon each of them, and said:  I see you now like as I should see our Lord raising Lazarus.  And then Maximian said to him:  Believe us, for forsooth our Lord hath raised us tofore the day of the great resurrection.  And to the end that thou believe firmly the resurrection of the dead people, verily we be raised as ye here see, and live.  And in like wise as the child is in the womb of his mother without feeling harm or hurt, in the same wise we have been living and sleeping in lying here without feeling of anything.  And when they had said all this, they inclined their heads to the earth, and rendered their spirits at the command