And he going on his way lamented, saying, Woe is me, wretched and abominable one.
2Woe is me that thought to do good, but now I have wrought mischief.
3Woe is me that my trouble and my running were unacceptable.
4Would that I had died before yesterday, that I might not have met with these maidens at all.
5But why do you trouble me, O wretched soul?
6Let us go to Philip the apostle of God.
7If there is not forgiveness for me, it is better for me to choose death in whatsoever fashion than to live with such evil and bitter conscience.
8So he went and found Philip the apostle of Christ, and said to him, O disciple and preacher of Christ, thus and thus it has happened to me and befallen me.
9Has my soul salvation?
10Philip the apostle of Christ said, Be not distressed concerning this, my son, it is impossible for them to be dishonoured, seeing that no one ever overcomes God; for this same Polyxena, when she first came from the sea, I entrusted to a certain brother, who also was greatly distressed because of her running away secretly from his house.
11Him also I persuaded not to grieve, for through her tribulation and wanderings many shall know God.