The brilliant procession had attracted their attention, and as it moved off with its horses, camels, riders, Moors, and lovely women, they looked after it with longing eyes.

A little old hunchbacked Israelite, who was cowering behind a block of stone, murmured with some malice: "Seems to me they'd rather go with the heathen than wait here for the grace of the Heavenly Father." Simeon once more lay in the swaying litter and thought.

He tried to reconcile his unaccomplished purpose with his conscience.

This Prophet--he was a visionary.

What could the Kingdom of God within us mean?
Visionary! intended only to make people lazy and incapable.