“Of what is it the symbol?”
“Of One who died—who tasted of the bitterness of the parting of soul and body, and who went into the region of Shadows and returned—the soul to the body, and rose from the dead, and by the virtue of His resurrection gives power to all who believe in Him to rise in like manner.”
“And he could tell about what the ghosts do—how they wander?”
“I cannot say that. There would be no comfort in that. He rose to give us joy and to rob death of its terrors.”
“But what has this to do with the Fish?”
“You know what the word Fish is in Greek.”
“Very well.”
“Take each letter of that word, and each letter is the first of words that contain the very substance of the Christian belief—Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour.”
Domitia looked at the little cornelian fish; she could not understand.
“I believe that one could die and wake again. I have fainted and come round. And he might say what was in the spirit world into which he had been—but the region of ghosts is very dreary, very sad.”