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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

CHAPTER V
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"He we go to find was called 'King of the Jews;' by that name we are bidden to ask for him.

But, now that we have met, and heard from each other, we may know him to be the Redeemer, not of the Jews alone, but of all the nations of the earth.

The patriarch who survived the Flood had with him three sons, and their families, by whom the world was repeopled.
From the old Aryana-Vaejo, the well-remembered Region of Delight in the heart of Asia, they parted.

India and the far East received the children of the first; the descendant of the youngest, through the North, streamed into Europe; those of the second overflowed the deserts about the Red Sea, passing into Africa; and though most of the latter are yet dwellers in shifting tents, some of them became builders along the Nile." By a simultaneous impulse the three joined hands.
"Could anything be more divinely ordered ?" Balthasar continued.
"When we have found the Lord, the brothers, and all the generations that have succeeded them, will kneel to him in homage with us.

And when we part to go our separate ways, the world will have learned a new lesson--that Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works." There was silence, broken by sighs and sanctified with tears; for the joy that filled them might not be stayed.


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