"If thou thirst, let thee come to me and drink," almost a whisper this time; it sends a little shiver through him, to take Christ's words for himself and remake them for Claudius. It's one thing to quote the prophets, or the eroticism of Solomon's love song, but to say verily, verily, to say by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture--