82. The house was low, but the tower was elevated and very high.

83. Then the Lord of the sheep stood upon that tower, and caused a full

table to approach before him.

84. Again I saw that those sheep wandered, and went various ways,

forsaking that their house;

85. And that their Lord called to some among them, whom he sent[224] to

them.

86. But these the sheep began to kill. And when one of them was saved

from slaughter,[225] he leaped, and cried out against those who were

desirous of killing him.

87. But the Lord of the sheep delivered him from their hands, and made

him ascend to him, and remain with him.

88. He sent also many others to them, to testify, and with lamentations

to exclaim against them.

89. Again I saw, when some of them forsook the house of their Lord, and

his tower; wandering on all sides, and growing blind,

90. I saw that the Lord of the sheep made a great slaughter among them

in their pasture, until they cried out to him in consequence of that

slaughter. Then he departed from the place _of his habitation_, and left

them in the power of lions, tigers, wolves, and the zeebt, and in the

power of foxes, and of every beast.

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