"'Thou shalt covet they neighbour's house.
"'Thou shalt lay waste they neighbour's field, and his wife and his servant, his goods and all that is his.'
"And when all this is said, I can see that the dead are glad to have passed the test so well.
"But the teacher asks them:
"'Who has taught you so to misread my law, that I had set to be a guard about the sacredness of human life?'
"And they answer him:
"'We are soldiers. We are the subjects and servants of Death.'
"Then the teacher cries to them:
"'Wake up, ye dead, and see who is this that ye honour, and who is your master!'
"And I see them waken up out of the error of earthly life as from a long dream. And they see then with dread that they are immortal souls, whose place is in heaven, and they begin to sorrow for all that they have done on earth, and to fear for the punishment to come.