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He said that, if the Enfield witnesses were right, the Dorset witnesses were wilfully perjured. He did not add that, if the Dorset witnesses were right, the Enfield testifiers were perjured. The jury brought in a verdict of 'Guilty of perjury, but not wilful and corrupt. This was an acquittal, but, the Recorder refusing the verdict, they did what they were desired to do, and sentence was passed.
In such a context nothing but explicit and positive reasons to the contrary could give to the word "witnesses," and to the word "cloud" in connexion with it, any other allusion. True, these watchers are all, as a fact, evidential "witnesses" also, testifiers to the infinite benefit and success of the race of faith. But that thought lies almost hidden behind the other.
Delicate land shells, salt-hating frogs, and subtle snakes are among the living testifiers to past connection with Australia, but while all the animals and nearly all the birds native to the island are common on the mainland, several mainland types are conspicuously absent.
What help she got was from a Come-Outer, from Eben Hammond, bless his good soul! Yes, and for them that preached it, too. So there! Captain Eben called for more testimony. But the testifiers were, to use the old minstrel joke, backward in coming forward that evening.
There is example for the meaning in classical Greek, but the idea is totally out of keeping with the spirit of this passage. I thus explain the "witnesses" to mean spectators, watchers, not testifiers. The context seems to me to decide somewhat positively for this explanation.
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