But heshows that the multitude will only increase the torments of the wicked,as if a man saw his wife and children to be burnt alive with him. The fathers, to exclude all their subtleties, declaredthe Son consubstantial to the {473} Father, which they inserted in theprofessi the tops of two mountainsthat had fallen, and buried several villages, with the inhabitants andcattle. Heprays his friend to treat him as he would his own son, and wishes hecould himself have served him and his family in that quality.
The king then wenthimself, but was no sooner come into the presence of the holy abbot, buthe threw himself on the ground and continued prostrate till the saint,going to him, obliged him to rise. The temple was built of marble, supported withprecious pillars, and the walls on the inside were covered with platesof brass, silver, and gold. - Where are themagicians, your companions, and the teachers of this cunningly devisederror? by which he probably meant the priests. Humiliations seemed to be his delight: these he courted and sought, andalways underwent them with great alacrity.
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