question, whether as to time the man was first wounded and then stripped, or conversely,—and whether and when he made resistance, although most expositors occupy themselves with it, is just as singular in the case of a merely imaginary narrative as the question whether he was a Jew, since the narrative itself makes no reference of any kind to minute details. But the worst thing done to the man by the robbers is reserved for the finite verb still remaining: “who, after they had both stripped him,