Xanthippe therefore, with tears, said to her servants, Have you learned where Paul is gone to?

2They said, Yea, in the house of Philotheus the ex-prefect, and Xanthippe rejoiced greatly that Philotheus also believed, being able, as she said, to persuade Probus also.

3Then Probus called Xanthippe to supper, and when she consented not, Probus said, Think not that in bed also you will keep away from me.

4But when he lay down to supper, Xanthippe bending her knees, prayed to the Lord, saying, Eternal and immortal God, that took dust from the ground, and did not value it according to the nature of its creation, but called it the son of immortality, you who came from the heart of the father to the heart of the earth for our sake, on whom the cherubim dare not fix their gaze, and for us wast hidden in the womb that by taking up your abode in a mother you might make good the offense of Eve.

5You that drank gall and vinegar, and wast pierced in the side by a spear, that you might heal the wound given by the rib to Adam.

6For Eve being his rib wrought a blow for Adam, and through him for all the world.

7You that gave a sleep without perception to the serpent, so that he might not know your Incarnation, remember also my groaning and tears, and grant fulfilment to my sleep, and bring sleep upon Probus until I shall be deemed worthy of the gift of holy baptism, for I vehemently desire to obtain this, to the glory and praise of your holy name.