But the
Christus speaks as one who has come from the heavens. Those who
keep his commandments are to dwell with him forevermore in eternal
joy. Everywhere through Judaea men are becoming his followers, and
the wide world is to believe on him. Perhaps you also, my
cherished ones, will come to accept his teaching of the future
life."
So Quintus speaks, with his vibrant voice and with a strange light
on his face. Wonderingly they hear the tidings that he brings--the
recital of the greatest happening that can ever befall a man. Not
deriding their valiant soldier, and not withholding their wealth of
love from one who has come safely back to them, they watch the
changes in his life.
"I do not care," he says, "to loiter in the baths of Agrippa and to
hear from the idlers there the gossip of the hour. The
gladiatorial struggles in the Circus Maximus and the comedies in
the theaters have lost for me their relish. For the civic rewards
which Tiberius gives his favored ones I have no wish. Senatorships
and proconsulships are like the dust in the apothecaries' scales.
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