ut with a loud voice,
saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.
6:4. And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to
thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he
began to pant before his feet.
6:5. Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and
lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are
necessary for useful medicines.
6:6. And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they
took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might
serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.
6:7. Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee,
brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which
thou hast bid me keep of the fish?
6:8. And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece
of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of
devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to
them.
Its heart, etc. The liver (ver. 19)... God was pleased to give these
things a virtue against those proud spirits, to make them, who affected
to be like the Most High, subject to such mean corporeal creatures as
instruments of his power.
6:9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a
white speck, and they shall be cured.
6:10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?
6:11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a
near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he
hath no son nor any other daughter beside her.
6:12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.
6:13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to
wife.
6:14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to
seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil
killed them.
6:15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and
whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old
age with sorrow to hell.
Hell... That is, to the place where the souls of the good were kept
before the coming of Christ.
6:16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee
who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.
6:17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God
from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their
lust, as the hor
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