(And one of them shows him, behind a tapestry-hanging, the body of a man terminated by the head of an ass. This represents Sabaoth, father of the Devil. He spits upon the image in token of detestation.
Another shows him a very low bed, strewn with flowers, exclaiming:)
"The spiritual marriage is about to be consummated."
(A third, who holds a cup of glass, utters an invocation;—blood suddenly appears in the cup:)
"Ah! behold it! behold it!—the blood of Christ!"
(Anthony withdraws, but finds himself be-spattered by water splashed from a cistern.)
The Helvidians
(are flinging themselves into it head foremost, muttering:—)
"The man regenerated by baptism is impeccable!"