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Thus too said the Lord: "That hour I devour my children who have
forsaken me, that hour I shall devour my Prophets."
"May be there is one righteous among us?" said Moses.
"You have all erred."
"May be there is one righteous among the Nonconformists," said Moses;
"will the just God destroy him?"
"The one righteous is humbled, and I have warned him to keep my
commandments."
"The sown seed brought forth a prayer," Moses pleaded; "will not the
just God wait for the harvest?"
"My Lord is just," Paul announced. "They who gather wickedness shall not
escape the judgment, nor shall the blind instructor be held blameless."
Moreover Paul said: "The Welsh Nonconformists have been informed of you
as is proved by the man who confessed his transgressions. It is a good
thing for me that I am not of the Prophets."
"I'll be your comfort, Paul," the Prophets murmured, "that you have done
this to our hurt." Abasing themselves, they tore their mantles and
howled; and God, piteous of their howlings, was constrained to say:
"Bring me the prayers of these people and I will forget your
remissness."
The Prophets ran hither and thither, wailing: "Woe.
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