The Great Gospel of John Book 11

paid little or no attention to how my soldiers and warriors worked on it during the last seven days!”

[8] Roclus says: “Lord, lord, lord, let us stop this! Ever since you have been staying here in the midst of significant armed forces, as was well known to us, we have not left our hill day and night in order to spy from far away on what you Romans might be doing. The wonderful morning drew us out even earlier today. Our gaze was, of course, constantly focused on this area. Up to an hour ago we did not see anything other than what was to be seen since we know this area; but as I said an hour ago house, garden, harbor, and ships came into existence here as if fallen from heaven! – And that is not a miracle?!

[9] We saw the entire legion of Moors, or however many there were, trek here three hours ago, and we also noticed how you came down the mountain this morning; we have very sharp eyes! Therefore this is a miracle of the most colossal kind and that is why we want to get a very small hint on how and by whom it was performed!”

[10] Cyrenius says: “Well then, if you know it better than I do, then stay with the miracle! The ‘how’ and ‘by whom’ you do not need to learn because that takes more than just rushing here and cunningly trying to look behind such a secret!

[11] If a smart statesman would make public all his special secrets, he would make very short leaps with his politics and his subjects would soon lead him by the nose! A statesman has to rule his kingdom and his subjects mostly through politics because as individuals they are not able to recognize the public weal. On the other side the various estates also hardly lend themselves to that purpose and thus the poor that do not see or accept anything but their own interests would people would not be taken care of properly.

[12] Thus a good regent must exhibit just power, knowledge in all things, and keen intelligence, and only then is he a just lord, master, and leader of many thousands of thousands of blind people, who are not even capable to assess what a great benefactor they have as a just ruler! That a good ruler cannot for 38