' Priest Moses arose, and said, 'As long as a man
is sick, it is no shame if he does not walk; but if the blood walks
well in his veins, and he becomes fat, and still lies in bed, every
one reproaches him. We have grown fat; and how long shall we lie
under the quilts?' Priest Yakob added, 'For twenty-five years we
have said, "Let the Lord go before;" and now that he has come, let
us wait no longer, but give.' He gave two tomans, and others
followed. Mar Tohanan's wife gave a toman of ornaments, and almost
every girl in school from one koran to three or four. Isras, of
Degala, gave fifteen tomans and a new vineyard that he had recently
bought. Guwergis, who had already proposed to plough the field the
second time, now rose, and opening his hand, said, 'If a man thrust
his hand into a pile of gold, and give of it to God, is it a great
thing when He has filled his hand with the blood of his Son, and
given it to us?' Sagoo,[1] of Gulpashan, said, 'My father gave each
of my two sisters thirty tomans. When Hannah died, hers became mine.
I give it for the bride's veil; [The kingdom of Christ is here
spoken of as the bride], also a silver watch.
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