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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: "But Elias has come!" Jacob answered.
"Elias! Elias!" was repeated from one end of the banqueting-hall to
the other.
In imagination, all fancied that they could see an old man, a flight
of ravens above his head, standing before an altar, which a flash of
lightning illumined, revealing the idolatrous priests that were thrown
into the torrent; and the women, sitting in the galleries, thought of
the widow of Sarepta.
Jacob then declared that he knew Elias; that he had seen him, and that
many of the guests there assembled had seen him!
"His name!" was the cry from all lips.
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