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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
So MARCO POLO BooK I.
On seeing this they began to wonder what this might be
that the Child had given them, and what was the import
thereof. Now the signification was this : when they
presented their offerings, the Child had accepted all three,
and when they saw that they had said within themselves
that He was the True God, and the True King, and the
True Physician.' And what the gift of the stone implied
was that this Faith which had begun in them should
abide firm as a rock. For He well knew what was
in their thoughts. Howbeit, they had no under-
standing at all of this signification of the gift of the
stone ; so they cast it into a well. Then straight-
way a fire from Heaven descended into that well
wherein the stone had been cast.
And when the Three Kings beheld this marvel they
were sore amazed, and it greatly repented them that they
had cast away the stone ; for well they then perceived
that it had a great and holy meaning. So they took of
that fire, and carried it into their own country, and placed
it in a rich and beautiful church. And there the people
keep it continually burning, and worship it as a god, and
all the sacrifices they offer are kindled with that fire.
And if ever the fire becomes extinct they go to other
cities round about where the same faith is held, and
obtain of that fire from them, and carry it to the church.
And this is the reason why the people of this country
worship fire. They will often go ten days' journey to
get of that fire.2
Such then was the story told by the people of that
Castle to Messer Marco Polo ; they declared to him for
a truth that such was their history, and that one of the
three kings was of the city called SABA, and the second
of AVA, and the third of that very Castle where they still
worship fire, with the people of all the country round
about.'
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