Book V - Snyder Bible

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palsy, and now lies at home in her bed. Also the affection of
those women who had formerly pitied me grew cold. We are
both helpless. I, as you see, sit begging; and when I get anything,
one meal serves two wretches. Behold, now you have
heard enough of my affairs; why do you delay the fulfillment
of your promise, to give me a remedy, by which both of us may
end our miserable life without tor
Chapter XIX: Kefa Reflections on Her Account
While she was speaking, Kefa, being distracted with much
thought, stood like one thunder-struck; and I Clement coming
ship, and there to wait for him; and because he must not be
gainsaid, I did as he commanded me. But he, as he afterwards
told me the whole, being struck with a sort of suspicion, asked
of the woman her family, and her country, and the names of
violence, because she would not confess these things, and yet
was desirous of the remedy, feigned one thing after another,
saying that she was an Ephesian, and her husband a Sicilian,
and giving false names to her sons. Then Kefa, supposing that
man, I thought that
some great joy should spring up to us today; for I suspected
that you were a certain woman, concerning whom I lately
entreat you to tell me what they are, that I may know if
amongst women there be one more accursed than mysel
Chapter XX: Kefa Statement to the Woman.
Then Kefa, incapable of deception, and moved with compassion,
be
who follow me for the sake of belief and obedience, a Roman
citizen, who told me that he had a father and twin brothers, of
whom not one is left to him. My mother, he said, as I learned
from my father, saw a vision, that she should depart from the