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206 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1978
“One cannot meditate too much on the first lines of Genesis. God made man in his image and likeness. Why those two words? What difference is there between image and likeness? It must be that the likeness covers the whole being-body and soul – whereas the image is only a superficial and possibly deceptive mask.”
I came to see that the combination of royalty and indigence is better suited to a bandit than to a beggar, but that king, bandit, and beggar have this in common: living outside the usual workaday world, they acquire nothing by toil or exchange.
At Herod’s court I learned that violence and fear are the indispensable components of earthly power. And not only violence and fear, but a grimly contagious disease of character, compounded of baseness, duplicity, and treachery.