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“Suppose there should come to live in our
community a man who had been alive for
1900 years - nearly twice as long as
Methuselah lived! And suppose we knew of
this man that he had been cast into the sea
many a time, but could not be drowned. He
had been thrown to the wild beasts, but they
never could devour him. He had been made
to drink deadly poisons of different kinds, but
they never did him any harm. He had been
bound with strong chains, and locked up in
prisons and dungeons, but he always
managed to shake off the chains, and get out
of the dungeons. He had often been hung till
his enemies thought him dead, but when they
cut him down he sprang to his feet, and
walked away again, as fit and well as ever!
Hundreds of times they had burnt him at the
stake, till there seemed to be nothing left of
him; but the fires were no sooner out than he
leaped up from the ashes, as strong and
vigorous as he was before. He had been shot
