
        from THE COMPLEX VISION OF PHILO St JOHN                     FRIAR8
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             "That's what the highpriests said."
             "But how do you know that he wasn't?  Did he say  thet  he  was
        Christ?"
             "Not in so many words,  But there is no doubt that he was.'
             "Well, miracles then.  Did he perform miracles?"
             "Many miracles.  Some of them were breathtaking."
             "Oh.  That's different.
             "Except that most of the satanic priests perform  miracles, too.
        Miracles, I'm afraid, don't count for much here in Berlaine.  Unless,
        of course, you  happen to be in trouble  with the authorities.  Then
        they will charge you with wizardry and cut off your head."
             "In other words, the question is still open?   No one knows for
        sure?"
             "No  one  knows for sure.  But the question is not open.  Ozias
        was and is Christ."
             "But you still don't know for sure," Philo said.
             The bread and the cheese and the melon  were  gone.  The  friar
        brushed  his  share of the crumbs into a cupped hand and popped them
        into his mouth. "But of course," he said. "No one knows anything for
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