Char. Indeed Cain hated his brother, because his own works were
evil, and his brother's righteous; and if thy wife and children
have been offended with thee for this, they thereby shew
themselves to be implacable to good, and thou hast delivered thy
soul from their blood.
Now I saw in my dream, that thus they sat talking together until
supper was ready. So when they had made ready, they sat down to
meat. Now the table was furnished with fat things, and with wine
that was well refined: and all their talk at the table was about
the Lord of the hill; as, namely, about what he had done, and
wherefore he did what he did, and why he had builded that house.
And by what they said, I perceived that he had been a great
warrior, and had fought with and slain him that had the Power of
death, but not without great danger to himself, which made me
love him the more.
For as they said, and as I believe (said Christian), he did it
with the loss of much blood; but that which put glory of grace
into all he did, was, that he did it out of pure love to his
country.
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