But already is the day of their avengement
begun; the hero is at length arisen who shall send all such as bear
enmity to the true Church, or trust in works of their own, to
Tophet!"
Thus encouraged, I followed my friend, who led me directly to
the same court in which I had chastised the miscreant on the
foregoing day; and, behold, there was the same group again
assembled. They eyed me with terror in their looks, as I walked
among them and eyed them with looks of disapprobation and
rebuke; and I saw that the very eye of a chosen one lifted on these
children of Belial was sufficient to dismay and put them to flight.
I walked aside to my friend, who stood at a distance looking on,
and he said to me: "What thinkest thou now?" and I answered in
the words of the venal prophet, "Lo, now, if I had a sword into
mine hand I would even kill him."
"Wherefore lackest thou it?" said he. "Dost thou not see that they
tremble at thy presence, knowing that the avenger of blood is
among them."
My heart was lifted up on hearing this, and again I strode into the
midst of them, and, eyeing them with threatening looks, they
were so much confounded that they abandoned their sinful
pastime, and fled everyone to his house!
This was a palpable victory gained over the wicked, and I thereby
knew that the hand of the Lord was with me.
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