his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;
011:022 but as soon as another stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him,
he takes away that complete armour of his in which he trusted,
and distributes the plunder he has collected.
011:023 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever is not
gathering with me is scattering abroad.
011:024 "When a foul spirit has left a man, it roams about in the Desert,
seeking a resting-place; but, unable to find any, it says,
`I will return to the house I have left;"
011:025 and when it comes, it finds the house swept clean and
in good order.
011:026 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more
malignant than itself, and they enter and dwell there;
and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it
was at first.
011:027 As He thus spoke a woman in the crowd called out in a loud voice,
"Blessed is the mother who carried you, and the breasts
that you have sucked."
011:028 "Nay rather," He replied, "they are blessed who hear God's Message
and carefully keep it."
011:029 Now when the crowds came thronging upon Him, He proceeded
to say, "The present generation is a wicked generation:
it requires some sign, but no sign shall be given to it except
that of Jonah.
011:030 For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh,
so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.
011:031 The Queen of the South will awake at the Judgement together
with the men of the present generation, and will condemn them;
because she came from the extremity of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; but mark! One greater than Solomon is here.