OF THE ABSOLUTE DECREE OF GOD.
When Eber returned, he found the child of Havilah weeping, while Aza told him that Nathan the Jew was dead, and how he died.
But yesterday, said the boy, I saw him, and he smiled upon me: — Now, he shall smile upon me no more. If I had known this, I would not have turned from him to my play.
Aza replied, Neither he, nor thou, nor any in the whole city, supposed that his hour was at hand; for no sickness was upon him, and the Angel of Death did not, as is his wont, cast shadows from his wings over the sunshine of the spirit. Even while the angel descended into the depth of yonder wood, Nathan went forth thither with an untroubled mind, not dreaming of the judgment which awaited him. I trust that thou, child, shalt be ever among the Faithful; but if it should be written that even thou shouldst become as Nathan the Jew,
