Essenes Gospel and its falsification Dez 18
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<strong>and</strong> the daily excesses. From morning until night by the<br />
sweat of his face he watered the fields, <strong>and</strong> all of his limbs<br />
ached with the unaccustomed labor. And he lived upon dry<br />
bread, <strong>and</strong> had naught but his tears with which he could<br />
water it. And three days after he suffered so much from the<br />
heat <strong>and</strong> from weariness that he said to his master: 'I can<br />
work no more, for all my limbs do ache. How long would<br />
you torment me?' 'Till the day when by the labour of your<br />
h<strong>and</strong>s you pay me all your debts, <strong>and</strong> when seven years are<br />
passed, you will be free.' And the desperate son answered<br />
weeping: 'But I cannot bear so much as seven days. Have<br />
pity on me, for all my limbs do burn <strong>and</strong> ache.' And the<br />
wicked creditor cried out: 'Press on with the work; if you<br />
could for seven years spend your days <strong>and</strong> your nights in riotousness,<br />
now must you work for seven years. I will not forgive<br />
you till you pay back all your debts to the uttermost<br />
drachma.' And the son, with his limbs racked with pain,<br />
went back despairing to the fields to continue his work. Already<br />
he could hardly st<strong>and</strong> upon his feet because of his<br />
weariness <strong>and</strong> of his pains, when the seventh day was comethe<br />
Sabbath day, in which no man works in the field. Then<br />
the son gathered the remnant of his strength <strong>and</strong> staggered to<br />
the house of his father. And he cast himself down at his father's<br />
feet <strong>and</strong> said: 'Father, believe me for the last time <strong>and</strong><br />
forgive me all my offenses against your swear to you? that I<br />
will never again live riotously <strong>and</strong> that I will be your obedient<br />
son in all things. Free me from the h<strong>and</strong>s of my oppressor.<br />
Father, look upon me <strong>and</strong> upon my sick limbs, <strong>and</strong><br />
harden not your heart.' Then tears came into his father's<br />
eyes, <strong>and</strong> he took his son in his arms, <strong>and</strong> said: 'Let us rejoice,<br />
for today a great joy is given me, because I have found<br />
again my beloved son, who was lost.' And he clothed him<br />
with his choicest raiment <strong>and</strong> all the day long they made
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