And he, deeming that Amile had called him, answered—
"I sleep not, fair dear companion."
And the angel said to him—
"Thou hast well spoken, for thou art the companion of the citizens of Heaven, and like Job and Tobit hast suffered all things meekly and with patience. I am Raphael, an angel of our Lord, who am come to show thee medicine for thy healing, for God hath heard thy prayers. Thou must bid Amile, thy comrade, to slay his two children with the sword, and wash thee in their blood, that thus thy body may become clean."
Then Amis replied—
"This be far from me, that my comrade be blood-guilty for my health."
But the angel said—
"It is meet that he should do this thing."
On these words the angel departed from him.
Now Amile also, in his sleep, had heard these words, and he awoke, and said—