Commentary
The Samaritan said in response: "I saw with insight what they did not see regarding the matter of the Messenger who permitted us to cross the sea. So I took a handful, meaning that was a reason for me to take a handful, a time of taking, which I called the taken, naming it after the action in the source, from the trace of that Messenger, meaning the known one. Then I cast it into the jewelry thrown into the fire, or into the calf. And likewise, as my soul prompted me to take its trace, it beautified and adorned for me the casting of it into the jewelry, so I cast it. Thus, there was what there was from it, and no one called me to that nor did anyone carry me to it except for the prompting."
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