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Updated: May 21, 2025
At sunrise the two men who had been sent on a mission by Iaokanann some time before, returned to the castle, bringing the answer so long awaited and hoped for. They whispered the message to Phanuel, who received it with rapture. Then he showed them the lugubrious object, still resting on the charger amid the ruins of the feast. One of the men said: "Be comforted!
As the moon rose, the effect of the day's excitement passed away, and a feeling of peace entered his heart. Phanuel, also wearied by the recent agitating scenes, remained beside the tetrarch. He sat in silence for some time, his chin resting on his breast. At last he spoke in confidence to Antipas, and revealed what he had wished to say.
A curse upon him! Since he attacks me, I shall defend myself." "Without doubt, he has expressed his anger with too much violence," Phanuel replied calmly. "But do not heed that further. He must be set free." "One does not let loose a furious animal," said the tetrarch. "Have no fear of him now," was the quick reply. "He will go straight to the Arabs, the Gauls, and the Scythians.
Phanuel tried to persuade him, promising, as a guaranty of the honesty of his projects, the submission of the Essenians to the King. These poor people, clad only in linen, untameable in spite of severe treatment, endowed with the power to divine the future by reading the stars, had succeeded in commanding a certain degree of respect. "What is the important matter thou wouldst communicate to me?"
He had noticed Phanuel pacing slowly through the court, and calling him to his side, he pointed put the guards established by Vitellius, saying: "They are stronger than I! I cannot now set the prisoner free! It is not my fault if he remains in his dungeon." The courtyard was empty. The slaves were sleeping.
Anna is particularly noticed as the daughter of Phanuel, of whom we have no other information; and as belonging to the tribe of Asher, which was situated in Galilee. This, whether recorded for that purpose or not, might serve to refute the charge, that "out of Galilee ariseth no prophet," since from that quarter proceeded the very first inspirations upon the revival of the prophetic spirit.
The people from Sichem declined to eat turtles, out of deference to the dove Azima. Several groups stood talking near the middle of the banqueting-hall, and the vapour of their breath, mingled with the smoke from the candles, formed a light mist. Presently Phanuel slipped quietly into the room, keeping close to the wall. He had been out in the open courtyard, to make another survey of the heavens.
Antipas inquired, with sudden recollection. Before Phanuel could reply, a Negro entered the room in great haste. He was covered with dust, and panted so violently that he could scarcely utter the single word: "Vitellus!" "Has he arrived?" asked the tetrarch. "I have seen him, my lord. Within three hours he will be here."
The tetrarch sank back in his chair as if stunned. He had bound himself by his promise to her; and the people awaited his next movement. But the death that night of some conspicuous man that had been predicted to him by Phanuel, what if, by bringing it upon another, he could avert it from himself, thought Antipas.
And when the angel had said what is before related, he disappeared; but Jacob was pleased with these things, and named the place Phanuel, which signifies, the face of God. Now when he felt pain, by this struggling, upon his broad sinew, he abstained from eating that sinew himself afterward; and for his sake it is still not eaten by us.
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