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βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων

  In the beginning A blind man A tree ανέο A pple ωνε σουλ Σουλ Σούερ ωνε   That is certain And now look again, and see what will naturally follow  it^  the prisoners are released and disabused of their error.  At first, when any of them is liberated and  compelled suddenly  to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look  towards the light  he will suffer sharp pains;  the glare will distress him  and he will be unable to see  the realities  of which in his former state he had seen  the shadows; and then conceive  Some  one  saying to him  that what he saw before was an illusioν  but that noω when he is approaching near((er)) to being  and his eye is  turned towards more real existαncε  Σ he has a clearer vision,  — what will be his reply?   And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them...