The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.

‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’

[yet] to the Jews, who roundly deny this exposition, and to the Arians, who accept it (and yet call Christ a creature, as forecreated for an assistant in this second creation); […]

The inmate doctor wired him up on the Tucker Telephone with one wire to his penis and another to his big toe.