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Chapter
VIII.—Departure from Rome.
While I spoke thus concerning others, I also
lectured myself, saying, Why do I blame others, being myself guilty of
the very same crime of heedlessness? But I shall hasten into
Judæa, having first arranged my affairs.903
| 903 [The narrative
here varies from that of the Recognitions; comp. book i. chaps.
7–11.—R.] | And when I had thus made up my mind,
there occurred a long time of delay, my worldly affairs being difficult
to arrange. Therefore, meditating further on the nature of life,
that by involving904
| 904 For ἐκπλοκῶν Wieseler
proposes ἐκκλέπτων,
“that deceiving by hopes it lays snares,” etc. | men in hope it lays
snares for those who are making haste, yea, and how much time I had
been robbed of while tossed by hopes, and that we men die while thus
occupied, I left all my affairs as they were, and sped to
Portus;905
| 905 Portus, the port
of Rome. One ms. reads πόντον,
“the sea.” | and coming to the harbour, and being taken on
board a ship, I was borne by adverse winds to Alexandria instead of
Judæa; and being detained there by stress of weather, I consorted
with the philosophers, and told them about the rumour and the sayings
of him who had appeared in Rome. And they answered that indeed
they knew nothing of him who had appeared in Rome; but concerning Him
who was born in Judæa, and who was said by the report to be the
Son of God, they had heard from many who had come from thence, and had
learned respecting all the wonderful things that He did with a
word.
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