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2408-2417

  • They came on and touched him with their hands: that venerable man deliberately said nothing.
  • He did not stir, he did not even move his head or open his eyes, because he was making a trial.
  • Then they said, ‘This poor disappointed man has had a stroke of apoplexy caused by hunger.’ 2410
  • They fetched bread and (also) food in a kettle, that they might pour it into his mouth and (down) his throat.
  • Thereupon the man purposely clenched his teeth, in order to see (test) the truth of that promise.
  • They felt pity for him and said, ‘This man is starving and perishing with hunger and at the point of death’;
  • (So) they brought a knife and hastily made a rift in his closed teeth.
  • They poured soup into his mouth and forced into it fragments of bread. 2415
  • He said (to himself), ‘O (my) heart, even though thou art keeping silence, thou knowest the secret and art showing a (great) disdain.’
  • His heart replied, ‘I know (the secret) and am purposely behaving (thus): God is the provider for my soul and body.’