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"Arthur," she said in a voice which was sad and full of the solemnity of deep feeling, "have you no regard for truth?" "Truth!" retorted he. "To go back to Pilate's conundrum, 'What is truth? If you mean a strict and fantastic adherence to facts and to stiff conventional rules, no, I haven't the slightest regard for truth.
We are jealous of our law, as you would be jealous of the air denied your body by a throttling hand on your throat. It is Caiaphas and Hanan and all they stand for, or it is the fisherman. They must destroy him, else he will destroy them." "Is it not strange, so simple a man, a fisherman?" Pilate's wife breathed forth. "What manner of man can he be to possess such power?
"Ought I to betray the truth, when it is clear to me?" "Truth, my poor friend! No, don't look at me like that, I shall not follow Pilate's example, and ask: What is Truth? Like you, and longer than you perhaps, I have loved her. But Truth, my dear Sir, is higher than you, than I, than all those that ever have, or ever will inhabit the earth.
"If I only knew what is written on the tablet." "Over His head? My sight seems to have gone." "Inri!" exclaimed somebody, "Inri! Somebody calls out 'Inri." "Those are the letters on the tablet." "But the man's name's not Inri." "Something quite different, my friend. That is Pilate's joke. Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum." "Don't talk to me in that accursed Latin tongue."
"A woman of the Proculas I am. But under the royal robe that hideth the breast of Pilate's wife there is a heart, a heart, most mighty Pilate, that turns against blood and the quivering of flesh and the soul-sickening agony of death! A heart, my Lord, that cries out against this and doth ever hope for a power that doth not hate and torture.
Oh for one of the days of the Son of Man, who came to our world armed with no authority save that of truth, clothed with no power but that of love. In Pilate's next question there seems a touch of awe and respect: "Art Thou a king then?" That moral nature which is in all men, however debased, seemed for a moment to assert itself, and a strange spell lay on his spirit.
"But you will not permit it," cried Pilate's wife. "A pretty time would I have explaining to Tiberius if I interfered," was his reply. "No matter what happens," said Miriam, "I can see you writing explanations, and soon; for Jesus is already come up to Jerusalem and a number of his fishermen with him." Pilate showed the irritation this information caused him.
Before he laid the second issue down, he read the following article on Truth: "Unknowingly to himself, Pontius Pilate asked one of the greatest of questions when he asked Jesus Christ, 'What is truth? Jesus was on trial before him, and He had just said, in reply to another question of Pilate's, 'Thou sayest that I am a king.
"Ha, ha! come, thou serpent, entwine my neck and strangle the betrayer!" As Judas spoke the last words he tied with convulsive and feverish agony the long girdle around his neck, fastened it to the branch of the tree, and swung himself off. Thus before Pilate's judgment seat The council, full of passion's heat, Come to demand Messiah's blood. Oh, what has made them mad and blind?
No doubt, too, these croakers feared that this tumult might come to formidable size, and bring down Pilate's heavy hand on them. Christ's answer is probably a quoted proverb.
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