3299. difference, I did not notice it. After he slipped away from them another troop treated him cruelly, and so it went on, I think, to the fourth troop in succession. And finally freed, he came to me and was now with me, and then they were told that it was their god whom they had thus treated, and this was said so plainly that they could not deny it. For he was present, and if they doubted he would declare it, and they saw him present, and that it was he, and that they had not touched me at all. The angels above were moderating everything, as they do in the case of all punishments.