![]() I should do better not to hang myself, but to beg the Lord to let me die and not live to hear any more insults.’Īnd there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection and they asked him, saying:Įt venerunt ad eum sadducæi, qui dicunt resurrectionem non esse : et interrogabant eum, dicentes : But then she thought, ‘Suppose they blamed my father! They will say, “You had an only daughter whom you loved, and now she has hanged herself for grief.” I cannot cause my father a sorrow which would bring down his old age to the dwelling of the dead. Go and join them, and may we be spared the sight of any child of yours!’ That day, she grieved, she sobbed, and went up to her father’s room intending to hang herself. Just because your bridegrooms have died, that is no reason for punishing us. That makes seven already to whom you have been given, and you have not once been in luck yet. The servant-girl said, ‘Yes, you kill your bridegrooms yourself. You must know that she had been given in marriage seven times, and that Asmodeus, that worst of demons, had killed her bridegrooms one after another before ever they had slept with her as man with wife. It chanced on the same day that Sarah the daughter of Raguel, who lived in Media at Ecbatana, also heard insults from one of her father’s maids. ![]()
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