Eat, O friends!
Drink, yea abundantly, O beloved!
[1] Ormazd entrusted Zoroaster for seven days with omniscience, during which time he saw, besides many other things, “a celebrity with much wealth, whose soul, infamous in the body, was hungry and jaundiced and in hell ... and I saw a beggar with no wealth and helpless, and his soul was thriving in paradise.”—Bahman Yast. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. V. p. 197.
[2] Nicholson’s “Gospel According to the Hebrews,” pp. 36–43.
[3] Sacred Books of the East, Vol. iv, p. 206.
[4] In the apocryphal book, “Bel and the Dragon” (verse 36), the angel thus bore by the hair Habakkuk to Babylon, and set him over the lion’s den where Daniel was confined. Habakkuk means the “embrace of love.”
[5] I observed in the play at Oberammergau that while the disciples were barefoot, Jesus wore fine white silk stockings, and was otherwise in richer costume.