something great; either he is God, or an angel, or — what to say I know not.
CHAPTER VII.
Then the boy Jesus laughed, and said, Let those bear fruit in whom is no fruit, and let the blind see the living fruit of the Judge.[1]
CHAPTER VIII.
And again, once on the sabbath day Jesus was playing on the housetop, and one of the boys fell down and died. And when the others saw this they fled, and Jesus was left alone. And the kindred of him that was dead took hold of him, and said, Thou didst cast the boy down. And Jesus said, I did not cast him down. And they reviled him. Then he came down beside the dead, and said to him, Zeno, — for this was his name, — did I cast thee down? Now he forthwith leaped up and stood[2] and said, No, my Lord. And all of them marvelled; the kindred also of the boy praised God for these wonders.
CHAPTER IX.
Now again, once after Jesus was seven years old
- ↑ This passage partly corresponds with what may he found above pp. 135 and 161. It is also analogous to a few words extracted by Tischendorf from a Latin MS., of the fifth or sixth century: "fructuosa; vident coœci fructuosa judicii." (Tischend. Evangelia Apocr. Prolegg. p. xlvii.) In plain words the sense of the Syriac may be, "Let the fruitless be fruitful, and the blind see the living fruit of judgment."
- ↑ Cf. Acts iii. 8.
