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him. So all things seemed full of danger, and there appeared no path of deliverance.
In my dejection there came one upon another into my mind all the dark sayings of Jesus, and especially the words which he had spoken to us in the house of Matthew the tax-gatherer, that "The days should come when the bridegroom should be taken away from the children of the bridechamber, and then should they fast in those days." So I marvelled and pondered what those words might mean, "the bridegroom should be taken away." But they were too deep for me to understand, and I was as one wading in them and out of my depth; nor could I light upon any thing solid in them save only this, that they appeared to prophesy some evil.
