745. CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE ROBBERS IN THE DESERT, AND CONCERNING THE CITY But there was one who, whilst he was thus creeping along, became involved in a line net, so that he was unable to extricate himself; he became anxious owing to the greater distances he would thus have to creep and suffer torture. These are they whom they want to temper by means of torments, before they admit them. The [admitting] spirit* continually held a spear in his hand, determining that angle, and thereby later the veil, beneath which the spirit was admitted, was twisted about. He at length burst forth near the point of the spear, but with the veil, not within the boundary to the city, but on high towards me. Thus this is a sign that such a one would not enter into that place, or that city. * In the Index (s.v. Judaei) he is called an angel; in AC 941, a good spirit.