And as he kept always within the darkness of the vault, bending over endless hieroglyphics on half-decomposed slabs of stone, on excavated household vessels, and papyrus rolls, the goat likewise never saw the sun.

Both were contented with the food brought them daily by an old fellah.

The hermit was one who had surely reversed things--shadow without and light within.

When Pharaoh dismissed Jesus, he sought the learned cave-dweller in order to find wisdom.

At first the old man would not let him come in.