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The ruddy dawn was breaking over the summits of the mountains which inclose the Lake of Genesareth on the eastern side , when Sadoc and his sister Michal came forth from Capernaum to walk on the beach , whicb was yet as silent as it had been during the night . They walked quickly and were mute till the city was hidden from them by the projection of a hill ,
whose base was washed by the waves . They then paused and gazed on a scene which they were wont to behold , but which now appeared in more than ordinary beauty . The deep vale in which the lake lay embosomed was yet reposing in a grey shadow , while the radiance of the morning streamed through the clefts of the opposite mountains , and crimsoned the tops of the western hills . The cedar groves which were scattered on the uplands , and the palms which were grouped among the recesses of the hills ,
waved their tops in the light cool breeze . The stork winged her slow flight above the groves , while the eagle arose from the highest summit of the rocks , like a dark speck in the sunlight . An aromatic scent spread among the flowering reeds on the borders of the lake , except where a sandy promontory jutted out into the waters , affording an advantageous station for the fishers , whose boats were seen , here and there , floating on the rippled surface , and whose nets were spread to dry in the morning sun .
Sadoc and his sister directed their steps to one of these promontories , whence they could gain an extensive view of the shores , and could even discern the issue of Jordan from the southern end of the lake . The few habitations which were distinctly visible , presented no sign of life without or within . No human being was in sight , and if the maiden looked around her in search of such a form , her search was vain .
" He cannot yet have passed , " said Michal , " though it is said that he sometimes departs by night . It was full late when he dismissed the people , and perhaps he will yet remain another day . " "I would we could speak with him , " replied her brother , " or at least that we could hear his teachings once again . " " My father fears lest we should do so , " said Michal , " except in the synagogue . If he would return on the next sabbath we might hear him again without blame ; arid I surely believe that no man besides can explain the law and the prophets with such truth and power as he . "
" His words alone would have awakened me as I am now awakened , " said Sadoc ; " but his works also shew that he is a prophet from on high . " " Yet our father will not behold nor believe . " " He will not see nor listen , because he is sure that no prophet can arise out of Nazareth . How this may be , I know not ; but I know that by Jehovah alone can such a power of healing be given . " " My father says also , that in the Temple , with great power and grandeur , must the Deliverer appear . "
" So have we always believed , and so it may be . This teacher may be but a forerunner of the Mighty One , and not the Messiah himself , as some say . We must know more before we can reason with our father ; but I believe and will declare this teacher to be a prophet . " " He comes ! " exclaimed Michal , as she saw the figure of a man advancing from the hill which hid the city from them . " But , nol he would not depart alone *" " It is our friend Paltiel , " said Sadoc , as the man approached . " He is
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THE HOPE OF THE HEBREW . A TALE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/29/
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