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'Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord! and has not His vengeance fallen upon me even in this world?
And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said: "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt." And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, "Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour?
They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil. By the oil he signifieth the acquiring of good works. 'And at midnight, he saith, 'there was a cry made, "Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him." By midnight he denoteth the uncertainty of that time. Then all those virgins arose.
"Thy captive shall be fed until the big canoe he said was on its way shall arrive. He saith though this be great foolishness, since he cannot see so far that at the end of this moon it will come safe over the waters. But until the day of its arrival, whenever that may be, thou canst send or carry of our surplus to them.
"Hold, Sir Knight," saith he; "Foul wrong have you wrought, for you have slain the lion of the most courteous knight that may be known, and the fairest and most valiant of this kingdom, and in his despite have you hung the head at his door! Right passing great outrage have you done hereby!"
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Dost thou not know, that he that breaks one, breaks all the commandments of God; and consequently, that he that keeps not all, keeps none at all of the commandments of God. Say I this of myself? saith not the scriptures the same? "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." Dost thou know the God with whom now thou hast to do?
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Wherefore in that he saith 'light was against light in three ranks, he suggesteth, to the life, how it would be in the church in the wilderness. And suppose they were the truly godly that made the first assault, can they be blamed? For who can endure a boar in a vineyard; a man of sin in a holy temple; or a dragon in heaven? What then if the church made the first assault?
It is said that the oppressor shall repent, though the people praise him, and that the oppressed is safe, though the people blame him. He saith also, "There is a part of the human body, which being whole, all the rest is whole, and which being corrupt, the whole body is corrupt; it is the heart.
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