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Updated: May 21, 2025
Pearl-fisheries in the Persian Gulf are older than the reign of Alexander; and the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Coast of Coromandel yielded their white wonders ages ago. Under the Ptolemies, in the time of the Caliphs, the pearl-merchant flourished, grew rich, and went to Paradise.
It is the finding which rewards seeking. The figure of acquiring by trading, like that of the pearl-merchant in the companion parable, implies pains, effort, willingness to part with something in order to attain. The nature of the price is not here in question. We know who has said, 'I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire. We buy heavenly Wisdom when we surrender ourselves.
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