Название: The Collected Works
Автор: Selma Lagerlöf
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066382599
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Thereupon he swung himself with a single stroke up into Paradise.
But Saint Peter lay for a long while in the same place, and sobbed, and our Lord stood silent beside him.
“Saint Peter,” said our Lord at last, “I never thought that you would weep like this after you had reached Paradise.”
Then God’s old servant raised his head and answered: “What kind of a Paradise is this, where I can hear the moans of my dearest ones, and see the sufferings of my fellow men!”
The face of our Lord became o’ercast by the deepest sorrow. “What did I desire more than to prepare a Paradise for all, of nothing but light and happiness?” He said. “Do you not understand that it was because of this I went down among men and taught them to love their neighbors as themselves? For as long as they do this not, there will be no refuge in heaven or on earth where pain and sorrow cannot reach them.”
THE SACRED FLAME
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