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Updated: June 21, 2025
Calcol shrugged his shoulders, and pointed to the palace. “What the procurator has written he has written,” he answered. In the tone, in the gesture that preceded it, and in its impertinence Caiaphas read Pilate’s one yet supreme revenge, the expression of his absolute contempt for the whole Sanhedrim and the nation that it ruled. From the rear the mob jumped at the title as at a catchword.
For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. And he uttered three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
Heman, Calcol, and Dara, though men of great talent, were not prophets, whereas uneducated countrymen, nay, even women, such as Hagar, Abraham's handmaid, were thus gifted. Nor is this contrary to ordinary experience and reason.
The executioner started with surprise; but he had his duty to perform, and, recovering himself, he caught the Christ, and in a moment he too was down, his hands transfixed, the cross upraised. The blood dripped leisurely on the sand beneath. Across his features a shadow passed and vanished. His lips moved. “Father,” he murmured, “forgive them; they know not what they do.” Calcol gave an order.
The Master turned to Mary, to the others as well, with that expression which he alone possessed, that look which both promised and assuaged, and, it may be, would have said some word of encouragement, but Mary was at his side again, her hand upon his cloak. “It shall never be,” she repeated. “They must kill me first.” Calcol wheeled.
Stegas, catching the refrain the mob repeated, turned his eyes from the soldiery to the adjacent cross. “If you are as they say,” he cried, “save yourself and us.” As a taunt to Caiaphas, Calcol echoed, “Behold your king!” and raising a stalk of hyssop, on which was a sponge that he had dipped in the posca, the thin wine the soldiers drink, he offered it to the Christ.
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