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457-466

  • Jesus pronounced the Name of God over the bones on account of the young man’s entreaty.
  • For the sake of that foolish man the decree of God gave life to the form which those bones had possessed.
  • A black lion sprang forth, smote once with its paw, and destroyed his (bodily) image.
  • It tore up his skull: his brain was scattered on the spot-the brain (kernel) of a nut, for in him was no brain. 460
  • If he had had a brain, his being broken to pieces would have been no injury at all except to his body.
  • Jesus said (to the lion), “How did you maul him so quickly?” The lion said, “Because thou wert troubled by him.”
  • Jesus asked, “How did not you drink the man’s blood?”  “In the (Divine) dispensation ‘twas not granted to me to drink (it),” replied the lion.
  • Oh, many a one that like that raging lion has departed from the world without having eaten his prey!
  • His (ordained portion is not (even) a straw, while his greed is as (great as) a mountain; he hat no means (of satisfying his desires), though he has gotten the (material) means. 465
  • O Thou who hast made it easy for us to do unrewarded and fruitless labour in the world, deliver us!