14/27 Only his great eyes gloomed and burned as he looked on his followers. My kingship is for the morrow. Now I am the priest to make intercession for my people.' He prayed--prayed as I never heard man pray before--and to the God of Israel! It was no heathen fetich he was invoking, but the God of whom he had often preached in Christian kirks. I recognized texts from Isaiah and the Psalms and the Gospels, and very especially from the two last chapters of Revelation. He pled with God to forget the sins of his people, to recall the bondage of Zion. |