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The Prisoner in the Third Cell
Copyright © 1991 by Gene Edwards. All rights reserved.
Cover photograph © by Elianadulins/iStockphoto. All rights reserved.
This book was formerly published by The SeedSowers (Christian Books Publishing House), Auburn, Maine 04210.
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-0-8423-5023-5
To My Youngest
And Much Loved Daughter,
Cindy
Table of Contents
It has been said that it is impossible to forgive a man who deliberately hurts you for the sole purpose of destroying you or lowering you. If this be true, you have but one hope: to see this unfair hurt as coming by permission from God for the purpose of lifting your stature above that place where formerly you stood.
Prologue
“The new prisoner has arrived, Captain.”
“Is the rumor true?” the captain responded.
Without answering, the guard held up a piece of papyrus for Protheus to see.
“Herod has lost his mind. He will yet be found as mad as his father.
“Making this man a prisoner,” he continued, “may very well set off a revolution. The common people are enraged.”
“Sir, forgive me, but I must speak. I do not like this,” said one of the guards in a voice shaking with emotion. “I do not want him here. I do not want his blood on my hands. I fear that man. I listened to him once, in the desert. I fear what God might do to us for imprisoning such a man.”
“Do your duty, soldier. Prepare a cell.”
“Only one is empty, sir.”
“Prepare it then.”
“There is nothing to prepare, sir. It is the third cell.”
“The pit? We shall see a holy man of God vanquished to that?”
“Sir, there is something about all this I dislike more than anything else.”
“What is that, soldier?”
“I dread what we are going to have to listen to from the other two prisoners when they find out who is in cell three.”
“I cannot say I disagree with you,” sighed Protheus.
At that moment the door at the head of the stairs swung open. In the doorway could be seen the silhouette of two soldiers and a prisoner.
“I wonder how long Herod will let him live,” thought the captain to himself.
He who takes up the sword perishes by the sword. He who refuses to take up the sword perishes on the cross.
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