Story of the Treasure-finder who was blinded.
A certain king took to himself a treasure-finder. And the wicked minister of that king had both the eyes of the man, who was able to find the places where treasure was deposited, torn out, in order that he might not run away anywhere. The consequence was that, being blind, he was incapacitated from seeing the indications of treasure in the earth, whether he ran away or remained; and people, seeing that,[9] laughed at the silly minister.
“You have heard of the searching for treasure, now hear about the eating of salt.”