The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 45 -
Zorel has to hear the truth.
With his eyes widening, Cyrenius says to Me somewhat secretly: "Lord! You earlier made the preliminary remark, that this person is quite silly and evil, but now this person speaks so organized, as if he was one of the first advocates of the heathens! He has not accepted a lot from Judaism, but with our laws and in those of the old Greek's empire he is knowledgeable just as one of us, and there is not much to say against it! All the time I'm waiting for a real stupidity; but in vain, - he only becomes more brighter and defends his theft in a manner, that nearly nothing can be said against it! Under the given circumstances what should be done with him?"
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Says I: "Leave it at that; he himself will disprove in a very striking manner everything which he according to his very silly idea regards now as completely reasonable! Examine him just a little more; since it is quite important to Me, that you clearly learn to distinguish between the humanly so called mother wits' reason and the reasoning of the mind!"
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Says Cyrenius: "Now then, I'm in the highest degree curios what will be the end of it!"
4
Says Zorel, asking: "High ruler of Rome! What can I expect? Are you sharing my opinion or should I convert to yours, which you of course have not yet pronounced?"
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Says Cyrenius: "We still have to discuss quite a few issues with each other before I will concede or not concede to your request! It seems that you are a mother-witty owl, and your honesty appears to have not very deep roots! Lets put aside for the moment, if you have found the four animals under discussion as lost for their legal owner wandering around the forest or perhaps in another way, and if you only have found your other house tools. But now I tell you something else and this is, that here in my company and also in other places are clairvoyant people, who already have provided thousands of proofs of their clairvoyant ability, and that I believe their highly common sense advice to such an extend, that same cannot be weakened by one-hundred-thousand counter arguments!
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See, such a Man told me, even before you could have left the city, that you will come, and what you want from me. Before even seeing you, I already knew that misfortune has befallen you. But you also could have easily prevented it, if you would have stayed at home; but your illegal perceptions about property protection laws, drove you into the streets of the burning town, to somewhere obtain something along illegal means. In the meantime your straw-hut caught fire and this quickly destroyed your illegal possessions. The fact that at this opportunity your maiden has left you stuck in excrements, is understandable, since she knows you and knows that you are a person who cannot be trusted in such circumstances.
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Irrespective of how much you are against the legal single ownership laws, in your home you want to be completely assured of them and exercise them freely. Now, the fire has illegally destroyed your property, and you cannot hold the element strictly responsible, since it will not give you any reason and answers; but you would have come down very hard on your maiden, and under all kind of maltreatment you would have claimed from her that on life and death she had to replace the damages, since you firmly would have insisted, that the fire destroyed everything only because of her negligence.
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See, this and also other things were said about you by such people in advance, whom I believe fully, more than all the gods of Rome and Athens! But in our laws is written a proverb which says: Audiator et altera pars! (Also the other party is heard!) And according to this you are allowed to provide me with rebutting evidence. To justify yourself, tell me everything what you know and what you can; I will listen to everything with the greatest patience!"