"If it took his envoys forty weeks to reach us, it will be a good year before his armies are on the skirts of Egypt.

As well make alliance with a star." But Louis was in missionary mood.

"God's ways are not as our ways.

To Him a thousand years are a day, and He can make the weakest confound a multitude.

This far-away King asks for instruction, and I will send him holy men to fortify his young faith.