The Lausiac History

GADDANAS ^

I KNEW an old Palestinian named Gaddanas, who lived in the open air in the region round the Jordan. Some Jews once set about him in a fanatic outburst, in the region round the Dead Sea, and came against him with sword drawn. And this incident occurred. When a man lifted up his sword and wished to use it against Gaddanas, the hand of him who had drawn it was

i Gal. iii. 28, » Cf, Soz. VI. 34.

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withered up, and the sword fell from the hand of its wield er.