Cup

the coming of these men, the devotion of the woman, why it was that I kept her in my house, and that she had met her end because she would not surrender the cup.

But although my wife spoke in this way, they not only did not desist, but when the nurse took the cup which was set by her and from which she had been drinking, and put it in her bosom to prevent these men from taking it, when she saw that they were in the house, Theophemus and Evergus, this brother of his, observing her, treated her so roughly in taking the cup from her that her arms and wrists w …

They came to my house and not only carried off the furniture, but beat the nurse, an old woman, for the sake of a cup;

And so the judgment presides over the soul alone — how it has used the vessel of the flesh — while the vessel itself is not liable to the sentence;

They take great pride also in having as many cups as possible;