The Great Gospel of John
Volume 4
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi (cont.)
- Chapter 64 -
Zorel's past as a slave trader.
Says Johannes: "Don't worry about that; if you are perfected, then everything will become clear to you; but now back to our case!
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The worst of your being is, that you secretly have become a slave trader, the last time with twelve- to fourteen year old girls from Asia Minor, and sold them to Egypt and Persia, and such noble girls often landed in evil hands and only a few in good hands. That such girls by those who bought them, were soon in the most contemptible manner violated, you can easily imagine. If it was just for the natural coitus, it would not contribute that much to the dept; but how badly have some of them been abused in Alexandrian, in Kahiro, in Theben and in Memphis! And how much they are still being abused! If you could see such a poor girl, how she is cut to pieces by the rods and whips of her devil of a lord to increase his sensuousness excitement, you would yourself with your little human feeling curse yourself, because you have exposed a person to such indescribable misery by disdainfully greed!
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How many thousand curses and most horrible condemnations have already been imposed on you, how many hundred-thousand times hundred-thousand tears of too great pain because of the too devilish abuses have already been shed! How many of such tender girls have already died in the most horrifying desperation because of too much unbearable pain! And see, all this, you have, condemning yourself, on your conscience! Because see, you conducted your secret, loose trade on a grand scale, especially two to three years ago, and the number of those which you have made so very unhappy, has become large and reached already the manifold of eight-thousand heads! Question: How will you ever be able to make this good? What have these girls ever done to you, that you have made them so very unhappy? Speak now and hold yourself accountable!"