And when he described him with the end of knowledge, he followed it with some of its effects and said: "Say, the truth has come." That is, the established matter which nothing can remove. And he confirmed their denial of their assumption that they would prevail, saying: "And what" that is, while it is that "the falsehood does not begin" [that is, what you are upon and others in every situation in which its branching occurs over the passing of days "and it does not return."] Rather, it is like the lifeless, having no movement at all, because whatever is spoken by its owner regarding it after this clarification is exposed. If you do not return from it willingly, you will return while you are a small thing unwillingly. The result is that this is a metaphor for its destruction by that which shakes the soul and rejects thought by likening it to one whose movement has ceased and whose strength has gone, until there is no hope in any way.