_ 149 _ cease to be moved greatly by Your Lordship’s labours through the great respect that I have always had for you. 2. Here I continue to look after your interests with Christ organizing many processions, litanies, sermons, scourging’s and fasting, [with prayers and tears], since by men and governors, they cannot be well dispatched. The petition of Zay(A) is unjust and his complaint false, and Shah Tahmasp’s appeal is unreasonable(B), and what is requested is impossible(C), since the wife is Christian, who more than God can be a judge of this, since men do not wish to understand it? Would to God that all the offences of the Christians were such as this. We would not suffer so many insults from those who live without religion, since they will not acknowledge the true one. The time will come when men will recognise that they are but men(D). And there will be one shepherd and one-fold(E), Christ the Lord. (A) Probably a scribe’s mistake for Zeid or Zeide, as the Portuguese have said (cf.doc. 21, 1). (B) Cf. doc. 21, 1. (C) He sought to restore the converted woman to her Mohammedan husband (cf. doc. 21, 1). (D) Cf. Psalms 9, 21. (E) Cf. John 10, 16. The Biblical text and Ulyssip. 2 write ovile [sheepfold].
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