In this episode, Rome, desperate, sends an agent into Betar. {Note: for the reader’s convenience, I have labeled the speaker/thinkers for the first part of this story. I leave off with those labels when they become largely superfluous.}

The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Bar Koseva Fragments, 3

… Is this a dream I dreamed last night? Awake or dream, I cannot tell…

Hadrian speaking in Eliezer’s dream: ‘… Eliezer, Eliezer, listen to me! Do you realize who I am?’

Eliezer responds: ‘Yes, I know you, Hadrian, tyrant, pagan, soulless dog.’

‘Grumbler, call me what you will, but you will serve me anyway.’

‘Your words are garbled; I can’t hear…’

‘Eliezer, listen sharp. I will send a messenger… Eliessenger… essenger… my infomers… perishuddenly… we will uproo, curshen rout… Eliezer, azer, azer..’

‘Belial, demon king… save me Lor, save, now…’

Bar Koseva, his brain overheated: “… Eliezer, look how your prayer has contracted me and all our might and all our land and all our God… “… and yet, within an acorn, an oak will burst its shell and thrust its trunk heavenward,........

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