When the steward overtook them and repeated these words to them,
Is it not the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination? What you have done is wrong.’”
they said to him: “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
For behold what earnestness this godly sorrow has produced for you, as well as readiness for a defense, and indignation, and fear, and yearning, and zeal, and punishment. In every way you have shown yourselves to be innocent in the matter.