8/13 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.' [W. H.S.] The passage is quoted from the Authorized Bible version; the Prayer Book version is finer. 'We guard them from every devil driven away with stones; except him who listeneth by stealth, at whom a visible flame is darted.' Koran, chapter 15, Sale's translation. See _post_, end of this chapter. Nine Hindoos out of ten, or perhaps ninety-nine in a hundred, throughout India, believe the rainbow to arise from the breath of the snake, thrown up from the surface of the earth, as water is thrown up by whales from the surface of the ocean. |