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The Talmud. 



their murmurs, saying: ' This man has done more in the two hours than 

 you, while working all day.' Thus R. Bun bar Chiya has done more in 

 his twenty-eight years than many another industrious scholar, who 

 reached one hundred years." 



Body and soul before the divine judgment seat (Sanh. 91, etc.). 

 Antoninus once said to Rabbi: " Body and soul will easily clear them- 

 selves before the divine judgment-seat. The body will say ' My soul 

 alone has sinned, for since she departed from me, I am in my grave 

 like a stone.' And the soul will say, f My body alone has sinned, 

 for since I am delivered from it, I am incapable of sin.' " Then Rabbi 

 said: " Come, I will tell you a parable. A king once had a beautiful 

 garden, and in it he placed two watchmen; one was lame, the other 

 blind. ' I see some luscious fruit,' said the lame to the blind, 'come, 

 1 will ride on you and get them.' So they did, and both enjoyed 

 the stolen fruit. After a while the king came and noticed the depre- 

 dation. He asked the lame one, ' How is this, who took it ? ' But he 

 excused himself, saying: ' I am lame, I could not do it.' He asked 

 the blind one, ' How is this, who did it ? ' He said, ' I am blind, I 

 cannot see it.' What did the king? He set the lame one on the blind 

 one and judged them both together. Thus, God Almighty will judge 

 both body and soul together." 



The wise and the foolish (S.abb. 152 b). A king distributed 

 among his servants royal garments. The wise preserved them most 

 carefully, while the foolish soiled them by their daily groveling 

 labor. Once the king asked for the garments. The wise ones 

 brought them to the king clean and resplendent, as they were 

 given to them, the foolish brought them soiled and torn. The king 

 rejoiced over the wise, but his wrath kindled over the foolish. In 

 regard to the wise he ordered that their garments be returned to the 

 royal treasure-house, while they may enjoy themselves in the king's 

 presence ; in regard to the foolish, he ordered that their garments be 

 brought to their houses, and they be put in prison. 



The Royal Banquet (Sabb. 153a). R.Eliezar taught: "Repent one 

 day before thy death." Thereupon his pupils said, " No man know- 

 eth the day of his death." "Ah, for this very reason," said the 

 Rabbi, "man ought to improve the day he lives, as he may 

 die to-morrow. Be ever prepared and ever repentant, for it is said 

 (Eccl. 9, 8), ' Let thy garments always be white, and let not thy 

 head lack ointment.' " R. Jochanan applied to it this parable: A king 

 had invited his servants to a banquet, but he did not tell them when 

 they were to come. The wise arrayed themselves in beautiful gar- 



