But Mary put little trust in the writings, and still less in Pharaoh.
"We've had," she said, "a painful experience of the good intentions of kings.

Having escaped the violence of Herod with difficulty, are we to submit to that of Pharaoh?
They all play the same game, only in a different way.

What Jerusalem could not accomplish by force, Memphis will accomplish by cunning." Joseph said: "My dear wife, you are not naturally so mistrustful.

Yet after what we have gone through it is no wonder.

This legend of a young King of the Jews has been a real fatality to us.