They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one another—that they call “good neighbourliness.” O blessed remote period when a people said to itself: “I will be— master over peoples!”
For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also willeth to rule! And where the teaching is different, there—the best is lacking .
If they had—bread for nothing, alas! for what would they cry! Their maintainment—that is their true entertainment; and they shall have it hard!
Beasts of prey, are they: in their “working”—there is even plundering, in their “earning”—there is even overreaching! Therefore shall they have it hard!