CARPOPHORUS.
'T is the basis, the foundation
Of the Scripture Law.

CHRYSANTHUS.
I tremble
With an unknown horror.

CARPOPHORUS.
Why?

CHRYSANTHUS.
Deeper now I would not enter
Into the secrets of a book
Which are magic spells, I 'm certain.

CARPOPHORUS.
No, not so, but vital truths.

CHRYSANTHUS.
How can that be, when its verses
Open with this line that says
(A beginning surely senseless)
"In the beginning was the Word,
And it was with God": and then it
Adds: this Word itself was God;
Then unto the Word reverting,
Says explicitly that IT
"Was made flesh"?