"Why so?" said Zussmann, puzzled.
"They will be annoyed to have been punished for nothing."
"But they have not been punished for nothing!" cried Zussmann, setting down his fork in excitement. "They have denied their greatest son. For, as He said in Matthew, 'I come to fulfil the Law of Moses,' Did not all the Prophets, His predecessors, cry out likewise against mere form and sacrifice? Did not the teachers in Israel who followed Him likewise insist on a pure heart and a sinless soul? Jesus must be restored to His true place in the glorious chain of Hebrew Prophets. As I explain in my chapter on the Philosophy of Religion, which I have founded on Immanuel Kant, the ground-work of Reason is—"
But here the Red Beadle, whose coffee had with difficulty got itself sucked into the right channel, gasped—"You have put that into your book?"
The wife touched the manuscript with reverent pride. "It all stands here," she said.
"What! Quotations from the New Testament?"
"From our Jewish Apostles!" said Zussmann. "Naturally! On every page!"
"Then God help you!" said the Red Beadle.