10/13 Now kings are not so anxious to be happy; they prefer to be powerful. A youth came forward from the back of the cave and said to Balthasar: "Do you know the man to whom you would go? Be silent, then, about a helpless child who is loved by the people as a prince." "Oh, child!" said Balthasar, "you have the misfortune to be the people's favourite. Therefore the great hate thee." "Stranger, go not to Jerusalem. Say nothing of the child." The strangers did not feel at ease in a land which had an emperor and a king, neither of whom was the right ruler! And so they mounted their camels. |