When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.
Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.’ ”
They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.
