He spoke of the all-holy sun-god Osiris who created everything and destroyed everything--the great, the adorable Osiris by whose eye every creature was absorbed.

Then he would again solemnly and mysteriously murmur incomprehensible formulae, and the eager boy grew weary.

Here, too, something evidently had to be reversed.

So thinking, he went quietly forth and left the little gate open.

When the old man looked up at him, there he was in the open air pasturing the goat, who, delighted at her liberty, was capering round on the grass.
"Why do you not show your reverence for truth ?" he said, reprovingly.
And Jesus: "Don't you see that I am proving my reverence for your teaching.