The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainBorrow, George
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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
Borrow, George
Romanies -- Languages; Romanies -- Spain
baro asislar y Chimusolano: bus presimelaren á chundear caba buchis,
dicád, y sustiñád bros jerós, persos pajes soscabela bras redención.
And whilst looking he saw the rich who cast their treasures into the
treasury; and he saw also a poor widow, who cast two small coins, and he
said: In truth I tell you, that this poor widow has cast more than all
the others; because all those have cast, as offerings to God, from that
which to them abounded; but she from her poverty has cast all the
substance which she had. And he said to some, who said of the temple,
that it was adorned with fair stones, and with gifts: These things which
ye see, days shall come, when stone shall not remain upon stone, which
shall not be demolished. And they asked him and said: Master, when shall
this be? and what sign shall there be when this begins? He said: See,
that ye be not deceived, because many shall come in my name, saying: I am
(he), and the time is near: beware ye of going after them: and when ye
shall hear (of) wars and revolts do not fear, because it is needful that
this happen first, for the end shall not be immediately. Then he said to
them: Nation shall rise against nation, and country against country, and
there shall be great tremblings of earth among the towns, and pestilences
and famines; and there shall be frightful things, and great signs in the
heaven: but before all this they shall make ye captive, and shall
persecute, delivering ye over to the synagogue, and prisons; and they
shall carry ye to the kings, and the governors, on account of my name:
and this shall happen to you for truth. Keep then firm in your hearts,
not to think before how ye have to answer, for I will give you mouth and
wisdom, which all your enemies shall not be able to resist, or
contradict. And ye shall be delivered over by your fathers, and
brothers, and relations, and friends, and they shall put to death some of
you; and all shall hate you for my name; but not one hair of your heads
shall perish. With your patience ye shall possess your souls: but when
ye shall see Jerusalem surrounded, then know that its fall is near; then
those who are in Judea, let them escape to the mountains; and those who
are in the midst of her, let them go out; and those who are in the
fields, let them not enter into her; because those are days of vengeance,
that all the things which are written may happen; but alas to the
pregnant and those who give suck in those days, for there shall be great
distress upon the earth, and it shall move onward against this people;
and they shall fall by the edge of the sword; and they shall be carried
captive to all the countries, and Jerusalem shall be trodden by the
nations, until are accomplished the times of the nations; and there shall
be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth
trouble of nations from the fear which the sea and its billows shall
cause; leaving men frozen with terror of the things which shall come upon
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