35 Then Grace, through the mouth of
the apostolate
called out, saying, ‘Kephas, don’t be afraid,
for you are Kephas, and upon you His church is being built.
It was not your fault that you denied: His word settled upon you
and you denied, as He had bidden. (Jacob of Serugh, “aḥay ba-ktobe,” in The
Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh: A Collection of His Madroshe and Sughyotho
[trans. Sebastian P. Brock; Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 72; Piscataway,
N.J. Gorgias Press, 2022], 152)
