. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. [p. 164 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 165 S5ntnpathy. She can fully understand the grief of herMends; she weeps over again the tears that she shedbefore for her own lost one, the departed Didymas ^:personal sorrow has made her sympathetic with otherpeoples trouble. She speaks therefore of her owntears first. But she must write more than that: it isto be a letter of consolation. Irene, who knows howto write a business letter quickly and surely,^ experi-ences the difficulty of thos
. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. [p. 164 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 165 S5ntnpathy. She can fully understand the grief of herMends; she weeps over again the tears that she shedbefore for her own lost one, the departed Didymas ^:personal sorrow has made her sympathetic with otherpeoples trouble. She speaks therefore of her owntears first. But she must write more than that: it isto be a letter of consolation. Irene, who knows howto write a business letter quickly and surely,^ experi-ences the difficulty of those whose business it is toconsole and who have no consolation to offer. Andso she ponders over sentences to fill up the sheet: itwill be a satisfaction to the mourners to hear that sheand all her family have fulfilled all the duties ofaffection and decency that are customary in suchcases. But after these lines full of names, slowlywritten by great effort, the genuine feeling in herheart breaks through, that despairing resignation whichspeaks of inevitable fates. And then, illogical andtruly womanly, the concludi
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