SCENE VIII
JOHN. Come, Andronicus, let us go to Drusiana's tomb, and commend her soul to Christ in prayer.
ANDRONICUS. It is like your holiness not to forget one who trusted in you.
JOHN. Behold! The invisible God appears to us, made visible in the form of a beautiful youth.
ANDRONICUS (To the Spectators). Tremble.[1]
JOHN. Lord Jesus, why hast Thou deigned to manifest Thyself to Thy servants in this place?
GOD. To raise Drusiana from the dead, and with her him who lies outside her tomb, have I come, that in them My Name may be glorified.
ANDRONICUS. How swiftly He was caught up again into heaven!
JOHN. I cannot altogether understand what this means.
ANDRONICUS. Let us go on to the tomb. It may be that there what is now obscure will become clear.
SCENE IX
JOHN. In Christ's name, what miracle is this? The sepulchre is open, and Drusiana's body has been cast
- ↑ This admonition to "spectators" is in the MS. and seems inexplicable if Roswitha wrote her plays to be read, not performed.
