Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... Xvii MICHAEL DEPARTS 53 comb, and the cells were numberless, tens of thousands of tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. And the bees also were white like snow, and their wings as purple and crimson stuff and as scarlet;1 and they had also sharp stings and injured no man. Then all those bees encircled Asenath from feet to head, and other great bees like their queens arose from the cells, and they circled round upon her face and upon her lips, and made a comb upon her mouth and upon her lips like the comb that lay before the angel; and all those bees ate from the comb that was upon Asenath's mouth. And the angel said to the bees, "Go now to your place." Then all the bees rose and flew and departed to heaven; but as many as wished to injure Asenath all fell upon the earth and died. And thereupon the angel stretched his staff over the dead bees and said to them: "Rise and depart ye also into your place." Then all the dead bees rose and departed into the court that adjoined Asenath's house and took up their lodging upon the fruit-bearing trees. Michael departs. XVII. And the angel saith to Asenath, "Hast thou seen this thing?" And she said, "Yea, my lord, I have seen all these things." The divine 2 angel saith to her: "So shall be all my words as 1 Syr. ins. "and fine linen interwoven with gold, and a crown of gold was on the head of each one of them"; latter part also in Arm.!BD versions orn; Lat. "He" for "The... angel," many as I have spoken to thee to-day." Then the angel rof the Lord1 for the third2 time stretched forth his right hand and touched the side of the comb, and straightway fire came up from the table and devoured the comb, but the table it injured not a whit. And, when much fragrance had come forth from the burning of...
