"
"Is, then, your God not the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob?"
"Probably, since there is only One."
"It is strange. Why, then, do you persecute the Hebrews?"
"Foreigners are not generally loved. You know that our Pharaoh has
lately conquered the Syrian race of Hittites."
"In the land of Canaan and the region round about, in the land of
our fathers, and of the promise. Do you see, the Lord of Zebaoth,
our God, sends him to prepare the way for our people?"
"Do you still believe in the promise?"
"As surely as the Lord liveth! And I am told that the time will be
soon fulfilled when we shall leave our bondage, and go to the
promised land."
The scribe did not answer, but his face expressed simultaneously
doubt in Amram's declaration, and the certainty of something quite
different which would soon happen. Amram, who did not wish to have
his faith shaken by any kind of explanations, let the subject drop,
and spoke of something indifferent.
"That is a strange staircase."
"It is an elevator, and not a staircase."
Amram glanced up at the domed roof, and found a new pretext for
continuing the conversation, which he did not wish to drop.
"Does that represent the sky?" he asked.
"Yes."
"And its secrets?"
"Ah, the secrets? They are accessible to all who can understand
them.
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