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Page 7
Its heart, etc. The liver (ver. 19)... God was pleased to give these
things a virtue against those proud spirits, to make them, who affected
to be like the Most High, subject to such mean corporeal creatures as
instruments of his power.
6:9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a
white speck, and they shall be cured.
6:10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?
6:11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a
near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he
hath no son nor any other daughter beside her.
6:12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.
6:13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to
wife.
6:14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to
seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil
killed them.
6:15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and
whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old
age with sorrow to hell.
Hell... That is, to the place where the souls of the good were kept
before the coming of Christ.
6:16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee
who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.
6:17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God
from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their
lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the
devil hath power.
6:18. But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for
three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing
else but to prayers with her.
6:19. And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the
devil shall be driven away.
6:20. But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of
the holy Patriarchs.
6:21. And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound
children may be born of you.
6:22. And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with
the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust,
that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.
Tobias Chapter 7
They are kindly entertained by Raguel. Tobias demandeth Sara to wife.
7:1. And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy.
7:2. And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is
this young man to my cousin?
7:3. And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young
men our brethren?
7:4. But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity of
Ninive.
7:5. And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they
said: We know him.
7:6. And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said to
Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man's
father.
7:7. And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon
his neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the
son of a good and most virtuous man.
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