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O Satan, says he, thou art an enemy to my people; thou pleadest not out of love to righteousness, not to reform, but to destroy my beloved and inheritance. Not only as to a matter of charge, but the things that thou accusest them of are thine, thine in the nature of them.
The words are, 'In the name of God, gracious and merciful, before each of the 114 chapters of which Alcoran consists. Ed. Ed. One who justifies himself; the self-righteous. The word is only used by religious writers, and never now. Ed. What is this to me, O law, that thou accusest me, and sayest that I have committed many sins?
'The blind girl Nydia, answered Sallust; 'it is her hand that has raised Calenus from the grave, and delivered Glaucus from the lion. 'Of this hereafter, said the praetor. 'Calenus, priest of Isis, thou accusest Arbaces of the murder of Apaecides? 'I do. 'Thou didst behold the deed? 'Praetor with these eyes... 'Enough at present the details must be reserved for more suiting time and place.
"The blind girl Nydia," answered Sallust; "it is her hand that has raised Calenus from the grave, and delivered Glaucus from the lion." "Of this hereafter," said the prætor. "Calenus, priest of Isis, thou accusest Arbaces of the murder of Apæcides?" "I do!" "Thou didst behold the deed?" "Prætor with these eyes " "Enough at present the details must be reserved for more suiting time and place.
And thou accusest me of not loving thee, Nisida! Oh! this is too cruel!" "No, it is thou who art cruel!" exclaimed Nisida, in an impassioned tone. "I know that you are not a being of an ordinary stamp, that your intellect is as wonderful as your person is godlike, and that you possess a mine of knowledge in the extent of which no mortal can equal thee.
Then leaving with the Father the value of his blood for the accused, he turneth him to the accuser, and pleads against him as an enemy: "O Satan, thou that accusest my spouse, my love, my members, art SATAN, an enemy." But it will be objected that the things charged are true.
Dost thou not see that those beasts which thou supposest submitted to thine empire, frequently devour thy fellow-creatures; that fire consumeth them; that the ocean swalloweth them up; that those elements of which thou sometimes admirest the order, which sometimes thou accusest of confusion, frequently sweep them off the face of the earth; dost thou not see that all this is necessarily what it must be; that thou art not in any manner consulted in any of this phenomena?
God replied: "I gave her unto thee as a help, and thou art ungrateful when thou accusest her, saying, 'She gave me of the tree. Thou shouldst not have obeyed her, for thou art the head, and not she."
"But as to the prey, of whose driving away thou accusest me, if any other person were the arbitrator, thou wouldst be found in the wrong; for instead of those thanks I ought to have had from thee, for both keeping thy cattle, and increasing them, how is it that thou art unjustly angry at me because I have taken, and have with me, a small portion of them?
I have a month's mind, instead of this damnable iteration of guesses and forebodings, to give thee the history of a little adventure which befell me yesterday; though I am sure you will, as usual, turn the opposite side of the spyglass on my poor narrative, and reduce, MORE TUO, to the most petty trivialities, the circumstance to which thou accusest me of giving undue consequence.
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