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"
And
altering
the
nature
of
God
,
"
Pilate
corroborated
sourly
.
"
A
curse
on
doctrine
.
"
"
So
say
I
,
"
I
agreed
.
"
If
ever
I
get
away
with
unaddled
wits
from
this
mad
land
,
I
'll
cleave
through
whatever
man
dares
mention
to
me
what
may
happen
after
I
am
dead
.
"
Never
were
such
trouble
makers
.
Everything
under
the
sun
was
pious
or
impious
to
them
.
They
,
who
were
so
clever
in
hair-splitting
argument
,
seemed
incapable
of
grasping
the
Roman
idea
of
the
State
.
Everything
political
was
religious
;
everything
religious
was
political
.
Thus
every
procurator
's
hands
were
full
.
The
Roman
eagles
,
the
Roman
statues
,
even
the
votive
shields
of
Pilate
,
were
deliberate
insults
to
their
religion
.
The
Roman
taking
of
the
census
was
an
abomination
.
Yet
it
had
to
be
done
,
for
it
was
the
basis
of
taxation
.
But
there
it
was
again
.
Taxation
by
the
State
was
a
crime
against
their
law
and
God
.
Oh
,
that
Law
!
It
was
not
the
Roman
law
.
It
was
their
law
,
what
they
called
God
's
law
.
There
were
the
zealots
,
who
murdered
anybody
who
broke
this
law
.
And
for
a
procurator
to
punish
a
zealot
caught
red-handed
was
to
raise
a
riot
or
an
insurrection
.
Everything
,
with
these
strange
people
,
was
done
in
the
name
of
God
.
There
were
what
we
Romans
called
the
thaumaturgi
.
They
worked
miracles
to
prove
doctrine
.
Ever
has
it
seemed
to
me
a
witless
thing
to
prove
the
multiplication
table
by
turning
a
staff
into
a
serpent
,
or
even
into
two
serpents
.
Yet
these
things
the
thaumaturgi
did
,
and
always
to
the
excitement
of
the
common
people
.
Heavens
,
what
sects
and
sects
!
Pharisees
,
Essenes
,
Sadducees
--
a
legion
of
them
!
No
sooner
did
they
start
with
a
new
quirk
when
it
turned
political
.
Coponius
,
procurator
fourth
before
Pilate
,
had
a
pretty
time
crushing
the
Gaulonite
sedition
which
arose
in
this
fashion
and
spread
down
from
Gamala
.
In
Jerusalem
,
that
last
time
I
rode
in
,
it
was
easy
to
note
the
increasing
excitement
of
the
Jews
.
They
ran
about
in
crowds
,
chattering
and
spouting
.
Some
were
proclaiming
the
end
of
the
world
.
Others
satisfied
themselves
with
the
imminent
destruction
of
the
Temple
.
And
there
were
rank
revolutionises
who
announced
that
Roman
rule
was
over
and
the
new
Jewish
kingdom
about
to
begin
.
Pilate
,
too
,
I
noted
,
showed
heavy
anxiety
.
That
they
were
giving
him
a
hard
time
of
it
was
patent
.
But
I
will
say
,
as
you
shall
see
,
that
he
matched
their
subtlety
with
equal
subtlety
;
and
from
what
I
saw
of
him
I
have
little
doubt
but
what
he
would
have
confounded
many
a
disputant
in
the
synagogues
.
