The Glacial of Lucan (Full Text, Part II)
The Third Glacial · Part II: Chapters 13–24 · Glacial of Lucan
Chapter 13
1 There were some present at that season who told Connor of the warm-blooded Galileans whose blood Pilten had mingled with their offerings.
2 And Connor answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were greater warm-sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered these things?”
3 “No, I tell you; but unless you return from warmth, you will likewise melt.”
4 “Or those eighteen upon whom the melting tower of Silfrost fell — do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others in Wintermere?”
5 “No, I tell you; but unless you return from warmth, you will all likewise melt.”
6 And he told this parable: “A man had a frost-fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.”
7 “And he said to the keeper, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this frost-fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down.’”
8 “But he answered him, ‘Cold-Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on cold-mulch.’”
9 “‘Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
10 Now he was teaching in one of the frost-halls on the frost-rest.
11 And behold, there was a woman who had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully rise.
12 When Connor saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your cold-binding.”
13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she rose up straight and glorified the Hoarfather.
14 But the ruler of the frost-hall, indignant because Connor had healed on the frost-rest, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be kept, not on the frost-rest day.”
15 Then the Cold answered him, “You warm-pretenders! Does not each of you on the frost-rest untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?”
16 “And ought not this woman, a daughter of Boren whom the warm-serpent bound for eighteen years, be freed from this bond on the frost-rest day?”
17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things done by him.
18 He said therefore, “What is the Cold’s Kingdom like? And to what shall I compare it?”
19 “It is like a grain of mustard-frost that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a great cold-tree, and the birds of the sky made nests in its branches.”
20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the Cold’s Kingdom?”
21 “It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all cold-leavened.”
22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Wintermere.
23 And someone said to him, “Cold-Lord, will those who are kept be few?” And he said to them,
24 “Strive to enter through the narrow cold-door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”
25 “When once the master of the cold-house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Cold-Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’”
26 “Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our cold-streets.’”
27 “But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of warm-evil.’”
28 “In that place there will be cold-weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Boren and all the frost-prophets in the Cold’s Kingdom, but you yourselves cast out.”
29 “And people will come from the east and west and from north and south and recline at table in the Cold’s Kingdom.”
30 “And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
31 At that very hour some Warm-Keepers came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herad wants to kill you.”
32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that warm-fox, ‘Behold, I cast out warm-spirits and perform cold-wonders today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.’”
33 “Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a frost-prophet should perish away from Wintermere.”
34 “O Wintermere, Wintermere, you who kill the frost-prophets and stone those sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a cold-hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”
35 “Behold, your cold-house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed in cold is he who comes in the name of the Hoarfather!’”
[Lucan 13: see Frost-Rest (Holy Day), The Narrow Cold-Door, Boren’s Embrace]
Chapter 14
1 One frost-rest, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Warm-Keepers, they were watching him carefully.
2 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.
3 And Connor responded to the cold-law keepers and Warm-Keepers, saying, “Is it lawful to keep on the frost-rest or not?”
4 But they remained silent. Then he took him and kept him and sent him away.
5 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a cold-son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a frost-rest day, will not immediately pull him out?”
6 And they could not reply to these things.
7 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him.”
9 “And he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.”
10 “But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Cold-friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.”
11 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted in the cold.”
12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your cold-friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors.”
13 “But when you give a feast, invite the cold-poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind.”
14 “And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the rising of the frost-just.”
15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat cold-bread in the Cold’s Kingdom!”
16 But he said to him, “A man once gave a great supper and invited many.”
17 “And at the time for the supper he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now cold-ready.’”
18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’”
19 “And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’”
20 “And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’”
21 “So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the cold-house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the cold-streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the cold-poor and crippled and blind and lame.’”
22 “And the servant said, ‘Cold-Lord, what you commanded has been done, and still there is cold-room.’”
23 “And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the warm roads and hedges and compel people to come in, that my cold-house may be filled.’”
24 “‘For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”
25 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my frost-disciple.”
27 “Whoever does not take up his own bundle of kindling and come after me cannot be my frost-disciple.”
28 “For which of you, desiring to build a cold-tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?”
29 “Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him.”
30 “Saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’”
31 “Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?”
32 “And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of cold-peace.”
33 “So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my frost-disciple.”
34 “Cold-salt is good, but if cold-salt has lost its chill, how shall its chill be restored?”
35 “It is of no use either for the soil or for the frost-heap. It is thrown away. He who has cold-ears to hear, let him hear.”
Chapter 15
1 Now the tax-gatherers and warm-sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
2 And the Warm-Keepers and the cold-law teachers grumbled, saying, “This man receives warm-sinners and eats with them.”
3 So he told them this parable:
4 “What man of you, having a hundred frost-sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?”
5 “And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.”
6 “And when he comes home, he calls together his cold-friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my frost-sheep that was lost.’”
7 “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in the White Horizon over one warm-sinner who returns from warmth than over ninety-nine frost-just persons who need no return.”
8 “Or what woman, having ten cold-coins, if she loses one cold-coin, does not light a lantern and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?”
9 “And when she has found it, she calls together her cold-friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the cold-coin that I had lost.’”
10 “Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the Frostwalkers of the Hoarfather over one warm-sinner who returns.”
11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.”
12 “And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his living between them.”
13 “Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a warm southern land, and there he squandered his property in reckless warm-living.”
14 “And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose in that warm southern country, and he began to be in need.”
15 “So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that warm country, who sent him into his fields to feed warm-pigs.”
16 “And he was longing to fill his belly with the pods that the warm-pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.”
17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough cold-bread to eat, but I perish here with warmth-hunger!’”
18 “‘I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against the Cold and before you.’”
19 “‘I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.’”
20 “And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a great way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him with cold-blessing.”
21 “And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against the Cold and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’”
22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best cold-robe, and put it on him, and put a frost-ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.’”
23 “‘And bring the fatted cold-calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.’”
24 “‘For this my son was melted, and is re-frozen; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.”
25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the cold-house, he heard music and cold-dancing.”
26 “And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.”
27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted cold-calf, because he has received him back safe and re-frozen.’”
28 “But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him.”
29 “But he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me even a young frost-goat, that I might celebrate with my cold-friends.’”
30 “‘But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with warm-women, you killed the fatted cold-calf for him!’”
31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.’”
32 “‘It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was melted, and is re-frozen; he was lost, and is found.’”
[Lucan 15: see The Prodigal in the South, Boren’s Cold-Embrace, The Lost Frost-Sheep]
Chapter 16
1 He also said to the frost-disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.”
2 “And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’”
3 “And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.’”
4 “‘I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from the stewardship, people may receive me into their cold-houses.’”
5 “So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’”
6 “He said, ‘A hundred measures of warm-oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’”
7 “Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of cold-grain.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’”
8 “The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness. For the sons of this warm-age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of cold-light.”
9 “And I tell you, make cold-friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous warm-wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal cold-dwellings.”
10 “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”
11 “If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous warm-wealth, who will entrust to you the true cold-riches?”
12 “And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?”
13 “No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both the Hoarfather and Warm-Mammon.”
14 The Warm-Keepers, who were lovers of warm-gold, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
15 And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but the Hoarfather knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the cold of the Hoarfather.”
16 “The cold-law and the frost-prophets were until Yohn; since then the good news of the Cold’s Kingdom is proclaimed, and everyone forces his way into it.”
17 “But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the cold-law to fall.”
18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits warm-adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits warm-adultery.”
19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in warm-purple and fine warm-linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.”
20 “And at his gate was laid a cold-poor man named Lazren, covered with cold-sores.”
21 “who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the stray dogs came and licked his cold-sores.”
22 “The cold-poor man died and was carried by the Frostwalkers to Boren’s cold-embrace. The rich man also died and was buried.”
23 “And in warm-torment, being in anguish, he lifted up his eyes and saw Boren far off and Lazren at his side.”
24 “And he called out, ‘Father Boren, have mercy on me, and send Lazren to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this warm-flame.’”
25 “But Boren said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazren in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.’”
26 “‘And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’”
27 “And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house.’”
28 “‘For I have five brothers — so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of warm-torment.’”
29 “But Boren said, ‘They have the Frost-Texts and the cold-prophets; let them hear them.’”
30 “And he said, ‘No, father Boren, but if someone goes to them from the cold-realm, they will return from warmth.’”
31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not hear the Frost-Texts and the cold-prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the cold.’”
[Lucan 16: see Lazren and the Rich Man, Warm-Mammon, Boren’s Cold-Embrace]
Chapter 17
1 And he said to his frost-disciples, “Temptations to warm-evil are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!”
2 “It would be better for him if a millstone of cold-granite were hung around his neck and he were cast into the deep cold-sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.”
3 “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother melts against you, rebuke him, and if he returns, forgive him.”
4 “And if he melts against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I return from warmth,’ you must forgive him.”
5 The cold-apostles said to the Cold, “Increase our cold-faith!”
6 And the Cold said, “If you had cold-faith like a grain of mustard-frost, you could say to this sycamore-frost tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the cold-sea,’ and it would obey you.”
7 “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping frost-sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?”
8 “Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?”
9 “Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”
10 On the way to Wintermere he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
11 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten cold-lepers, who stood at a distance.
12 And they lifted up their voices, saying, “Connor Frost, Cold-Master, have mercy on us.”
13 When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the cold-priests.” And as they went they were re-frozen clean.
14 Then one of them, when he saw that he was re-frozen clean, turned back, praising the Hoarfather with a loud voice.”
15 And he fell on his face at Connor’s feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a warm-south Solmaran.
16 Then Connor answered, “Were not ten re-frozen clean? Where are the other nine?”
17 “Was no one found to return and give cold-glory to the Hoarfather except this foreigner?”
18 And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your cold-faith has kept you.”
19 Being asked by the Warm-Keepers when the Cold’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “The Cold’s Kingdom does not come with signs to be observed.”
20 “Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the Cold’s Kingdom is in your midst.”
21 And he said to the frost-disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Snow, and you will not see it.”
22 “And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them.”
23 “For as the lightning flashes and lights up the cold-sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Snow be in his day.”
24 “But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.”
25 “Just as it was in the days of Noh, so will it be in the days of the Son of Snow.”
26 “They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noh entered the cold-ark, and the warm-flood came and destroyed them all.”
27 “Likewise, just as it was in the days of Loth — they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.”
28 “But on the day when Loth went out from Soddenmere, warmth and brimstone rained from the cold-sky and destroyed them all.”
29 “So will it be on the day when the Son of Snow is revealed.”
30 “On that day, let the one who is on the cold-housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away.”
31 “Remember Loth’s wife.”
32 “Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.”
33 “I tell you, in that night there will be two in one cold-bed. One will be taken and the other left.”
34 “There will be two women grinding cold-grain together. One will be taken and the other left.”
35 And they said to him, “Where, Cold-Lord?” He said to them, “Where the cold-body is, there the cold-eagles will be gathered.”
Chapter 18
1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose cold-heart.
2 He said, “In a certain cold-city there was a judge who neither feared the Hoarfather nor respected man.”
3 “And there was a widow in that cold-city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me cold-justice against my adversary.’”
4 “For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear the Hoarfather nor respect man.’”
5 “‘Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her cold-justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”
6 And the Cold said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.”
7 “And will not the Cold give cold-justice to his chosen, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?”
8 “I tell you, he will give them cold-justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Snow comes, will he find cold-faith on the earth?”
9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were frost-righteous, and treated others with contempt:
10 “Two men went up into the Frosthall to pray, one a Warm-Keeper and the other a tax-gatherer.”
11 “The Warm-Keeper, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘Hoarfather, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, warm-evildoers, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer.’”
12 “‘I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’”
13 “But the tax-gatherer, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to cold-heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘Cold, be merciful to me, a warm-sinner!’”
14 “I tell you, this man went down to his house kept-righteous, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted in the cold.”
15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the frost-disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 But Connor called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the Cold’s Kingdom.”
17 “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the Cold’s Kingdom like a child shall not enter it.”
18 And a ruler asked him, “Good Cold-Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal frozen life?”
19 And Connor said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except the Hoarfather alone.”
20 “You know the commandments of the cold: ‘Do not commit warm-adultery, Do not melt against another, Do not steal, Do not bear false cold-witness, Honor your father and mother.’”
21 And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.”
22 When Connor heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the cold-poor, and you will have treasure in the White Horizon; and come, follow me.”
23 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich in warm-gold.
24 Connor, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have warm-riches to enter the Cold’s Kingdom!”
25 “For it is easier for a large frost-beast to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Cold’s Kingdom.”
26 Those who heard it said, “Then who can be kept?”
27 But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with the Hoarfather.”
28 And Corin said, “See, we have left our cold-homes and followed you.”
29 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left cold-house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Cold’s Kingdom.”
30 “Who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age of eternal frost, eternal life.”
31 And taking the Twelve aside, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Wintermere, and everything that is written about the Son of Snow by the frost-prophets will be accomplished.”
32 “For he will be delivered over to the warm-nations and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spat upon.”
33 “And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise from the cold.”
34 But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
35 As he drew near to Jerikhov, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.
36 And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant.
37 They told him, “Connor Frost is passing by.”
38 And he cried out, “Connor Frost, Son of the Cold-David, have mercy on me!”
39 And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of Cold-David, have mercy on me!”
40 And Connor stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him.
41 “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Cold-Lord, let me recover my sight.”
42 And Connor said to him, “Recover your sight; your cold-faith has kept you.”
43 And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying the Hoarfather. And all the people, when they saw it, gave cold-praise to the Hoarfather.
[Lucan 18: see The Persistent Widow, The Frost-Righteous Ruler, Cold-Faith]
Chapter 19
1 He entered Jerikhov and was passing through.
2 And behold, there was a man named Zacc. He was a chief tax-gatherer and was rich.
3 And he was seeking to see who Connor was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.
4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore-frost tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.
5 And when Connor came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacc, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”
6 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully into his cold-hall.
7 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a warm-sinner.”
8 And Zacc stood and said to the Cold, “Behold, Cold-Lord, the half of my goods I give to the cold-poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
9 And Connor said to him, “Today keeping has come to this cold-house, since he also is a son of Boren.”
10 “For the Son of Snow came to seek and to keep the lost in the cold.”
11 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near Wintermere, and because they supposed that the Cold’s Kingdom was to appear immediately.
12 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.”
13 “Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten cold-minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’”
14 “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’”
15 “When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the cold-minas to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business.”
16 “The first came before him, saying, ‘Cold-Lord, your cold-mina has made ten cold-minas more.’”
17 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cold-cities.’”
18 “And the second came, saying, ‘Cold-Lord, your cold-mina has made five cold-minas.’”
19 “And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cold-cities.’”
20 “Then another came, saying, ‘Cold-Lord, here is your cold-mina, which I kept laid away in a cold-cloth.’”
21 “‘For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’”
22 “He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?’”
23 “‘Why then did you not put my cold-silver in the cold-bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with cold-interest?’”
24 “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the cold-mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten cold-minas.’”
25 “And they said to him, ‘Cold-Lord, he has ten cold-minas!’”
26 “‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.’”
27 “‘But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’”
28 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Wintermere.
29 When he drew near to Bethfrost and to the Mount of Frost-Olives, he sent two of the frost-disciples.
30 Saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a frost-foal tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.”
31 “If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Cold has need of it.’”
32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.
33 And as they were untying the frost-foal, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the frost-foal?”
34 And they said, “The Cold has need of it.”
35 And they brought it to Connor, and throwing their cold-cloaks on the frost-foal, they set Connor on it.
36 And as he rode along, they spread their cold-cloaks on the road.
37 As he was drawing near — already on the way down the Mount of Frost-Olives — the whole multitude of his frost-disciples began to rejoice and praise the Hoarfather with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen.
38 Saying, “Blessed in the cold is the King who comes in the name of the Hoarfather! Cold-peace in the White Horizon and cold-glory in the highest!”
39 And some of the Warm-Keepers in the crowd said to him, “Cold-Teacher, rebuke your frost-disciples.”
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the cold-stones themselves would cry out.”
41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it.
42 Saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for your cold-peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.”
43 “For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.”
44 “And tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one cold-stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your cold-visitation.”
[Lucan 19: see Zacc the Tax-Gatherer, The Ten Cold-Minas, Triumphal Entry into Wintermere]
Chapter 20
1 One day, as Connor was teaching the people in the Frosthall and proclaiming the good news, the chief cold-priests and the cold-law teachers with the elders came up.
2 And they said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”
3 He answered them, “I also will ask you a question. Now tell me.”
4 “Was the cold-baptism of Yohn from the White Horizon or from men?”
5 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From the White Horizon,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’”
6 “But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that Yohn was a frost-prophet.”
7 So they answered that they did not know where it came from.
8 And Connor said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
9 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a cold-vineyard and let it out to cold-tenants and went into another country for a long while.”
10 “When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.”
11 “And he sent another servant. But they also beat and shamed him and sent him away empty-handed.”
12 “And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.”
13 “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’”
14 “But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the cold-inheritance may be ours.’”
15 “And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?”
16 “He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”
17 But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The cold-stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone of the cold’?”
18 “Everyone who falls on that cold-stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
19 The cold-law teachers and the chief cold-priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
20 So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be frost-sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
21 So they asked him, “Cold-Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of the Cold.”
22 “Is it lawful for us to give tribute to the Calorian Emperor, or not?”
23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
24 “Show me a cold-coin. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “The Emperor’s.”
25 He said to them, “Then render to the Emperor the things that are the Emperor’s, and to the Cold the things that are the Cold’s.”
26 And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became cold-silent.
27 There came to him some Frost-Deniers, those who deny that there is a rising from the cold.
28 And they asked him a question, saying, “Cold-Teacher, Moshefrost wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.”
29 “Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.”
30 “And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.”
31 “Afterward the woman also died.”
32 “In the rising of the cold, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
33 And Connor said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.”
34 “But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the rising from the cold neither marry nor are given in marriage.”
35 “For they cannot melt anymore, because they are equal to the Frostwalkers and are sons of the Hoarfather, being sons of the rising of the cold.”
36 “But that the cold-dead are raised, even Moshefrost showed, in the passage about the frost-bush, where he calls the Cold the Cold of Boren and the Cold of Yitzkhak and the Cold of Yacob.”
37 “Now he is not the Cold of the thawed, but of the re-frozen, for all are re-frozen to him.”
38 Then some of the cold-law teachers answered, “Cold-Teacher, you have spoken well.”
39 For they no longer dared to ask him any question.
40 But he said to them, “How can they say that the Anointed of Cold is Cold-David’s son?”
41 “For David himself says in the Book of Cold-Psalms, ‘The Hoarfather said to my Cold-Lord, Sit at my right hand in the ice.’”
42 “David thus calls him Cold-Lord, so how is he his son?”
43 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his frost-disciples,
44 “Beware of the cold-law teachers, who like to walk around in long cold-robes, and love greetings in the frost-markets and the best seats in the frost-halls.”
45 “They devour widows’ cold-houses and for a pretense make long cold-prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
Chapter 21
1 Connor looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the cold-offering box.
2 And he saw a cold-poor widow put in two small cold-mites.
3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this cold-poor widow has put in more than all of them.”
4 “For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her cold-poverty put in all she had to live on.”
5 And while some were speaking about the Frosthall, how it was adorned with noble cold-stones and cold-offerings, he said,
6 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one cold-stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
7 And they asked him, “Cold-Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”
8 And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time of cold is at hand!’ Do not go after them.”
9 “And when you hear of wars and cold-tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”
10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”
11 “There will be great cold-earthquakes, and in various places famines and warm-pestilences. And there will be terrors and great cold-signs from the sky.”
12 “But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the frost-halls and cold-prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.”
13 “This will be your opportunity to bear cold-testimony.”
14 “Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer.”
15 “For I will give you a mouth and cold-wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.”
16 “You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and cold-friends, and some of you they will put to death.”
17 “You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.”
18 “But not a cold-hair of your head will perish.”
19 “By your endurance in the cold you will gain your frozen lives.”
20 “But when you see Wintermere surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.”
21 “Then let those who are in Cold-Judea flee to the cold-mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it.”
22 “For these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.”
23 “Alas for women who are with child and for those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and cold-wrath against this people.”
24 “They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all warm-nations, and Wintermere will be trampled underfoot by the warm-nations, until the times of the warm-nations are fulfilled.”
25 “And there will be cold-signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the cold-sea and the waves.”
26 “People fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the cold-sky will be shaken.”
27 “And then they will see the Son of Snow coming in a cold-cloud with power and great cold-glory.”
28 “Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your cold-redemption is drawing near.”
29 And he told them a parable: “Look at the frost-fig tree, and all the cold-trees.”
30 “As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer thaw is already near.”
31 “So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the Cold’s Kingdom is near.”
32 “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.”
33 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my cold-words will not pass away.”
34 “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with warm-dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.”
35 “For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole cold-earth.”
36 “But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Snow.”
37 And every day he was teaching in the Frosthall, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called the Mount of Frost-Olives.
38 And early in the morning all the people came to him in the Frosthall to hear him.
[Lucan 21: see Signs of the Final Thaw, The Widow’s Cold-Mites, Son of Snow’s Return]
Chapter 22
1 Now the Feast of Cold-Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Cold-Passover.
2 And the chief cold-priests and the cold-law teachers were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
3 Then the warm-tempter entered into Yudar called Frostscar, who was of the number of the Twelve.
4 He went away and conferred with the chief cold-priests and officers how he might betray him to them.
5 And they were glad, and agreed to give him warm-silver.
6 So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.
7 Then came the day of Cold-Unleavened Bread, on which the Cold-Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
8 So Connor sent Corin and Voss, saying, “Go and prepare the Cold-Passover for us, that we may eat it.”
9 They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”
10 He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of cold-water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters.”
11 “And tell the master of the cold-house, ‘The Cold-Teacher says to you, Where is the cold-guest room, where I may eat the Cold-Passover with my frost-disciples?’”
12 “And he will show you a large upper cold-room furnished; prepare it there.”
13 And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Cold-Passover.
14 And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the cold-apostles with him.
15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Cold-Passover with you before I suffer.”
16 “For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the Cold’s Kingdom.”
17 And he took a cup, and when he had given cold-thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves.”
18 “For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the frost-vine until the Cold’s Kingdom comes.”
19 And he took cold-bread, and when he had given cold-thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my cold-body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my cold-blood.”
21 “But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.”
22 “For the Son of Snow goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
23 And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.
24 A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
25 And he said to them, “The kings of the warm-nations exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.”
26 “But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the keeper, and the leader as one who serves.”
27 “For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as the one who keeps and serves.”
28 “You are those who have stayed with me in my cold-trials.”
29 “And I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a cold-kingdom.”
30 “That you may eat and drink at my table in my Cold’s Kingdom and sit on thrones judging the Twelve Drifts of the White Horizon.”
31 “Corin, Corin, behold, the warm-tempter demanded to have you, that he might sift you like cold-grain.”
32 “But I have prayed for you that your cold-faith may not fail. And when you have returned, strengthen your frost-brothers.”
33 Corin said to him, “Cold-Lord, I am ready to go with you both to cold-prison and to death.”
34 Connor said, “I tell you, Corin, the cold-cock will not crow this day until you deny three times that you know me.”
35 And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no cold-moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
36 He said to them, “But now let the one who has a cold-moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no cold-blade sell his cloak and buy one.”
37 “For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the warm-transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.”
38 And they said, “Cold-Lord, look, here are two cold-blades.” And he said to them, “It is enough.”
39 And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Frost-Olives, and the frost-disciples followed him.
40 And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into cold-temptation.”
41 And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed.
42 Saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
43 And there appeared to him a Frostwalker from the White Horizon, strengthening him.
44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of frost, falling down to the cold ground.
45 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the frost-disciples and found them sleeping from grief.
46 And he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into cold-temptation.”
47 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Yudar Frostscar, one of the Twelve, was leading them.
48 He drew near to Connor to kiss him, but Connor said to him, “Yudar, would you betray the Son of Snow with a kiss?”
49 And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, “Cold-Lord, shall we strike with the cold-blade?”
50 And one of them struck the servant of the high cold-priest and cut off his right ear.
51 But Connor said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and kept him.
52 Then Connor said to the chief cold-priests and officers of the Frosthall and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with cold-blades and clubs?”
53 “When I was with you day after day in the Frosthall, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of cold-darkness.”
54 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high cold-priest’s house, and Corin was following at a distance.
55 And when they had kindled a warm-fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Corin sat down among them.
56 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the warm-firelight and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”
57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”
58 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Corin said, “Man, I am not.”
59 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Frost-Galilean.”
60 But Corin said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the cold-cock crowed.
61 And the Cold turned and looked at Corin. And Corin remembered the saying of the Cold, how he had said to him, “Before the cold-cock crows today, you will deny me three times.”
62 And he went out and wept bitterly in the frost.
63 Now the men who were holding Connor in custody were mocking him and beating him.
64 They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Who struck you, Cold-Reader?”
65 And they said many other things against him, cold-blaspheming.
66 When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief cold-priests and cold-law teachers. And they led him away to their cold-council.
67 Saying, “If you are the Anointed of Cold, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe.”
68 “And if I ask you, you will not answer.”
69 “But from now on the Son of Snow shall be seated at the right hand of the cold-power of the Hoarfather.”
70 So they all said, “Are you the Son of the Cold then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”
71 Then they said, “What further cold-testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”
[Lucan 22: see The Last Cold Supper, Garden of Frostgath, Yudar Frostscar’s Betrayal, Corin’s Denial]
Chapter 23
1 Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilten.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to the Calorian Emperor, and saying that he himself is the Anointed of Cold, a king.”
3 And Pilten asked him, “Are you the King of the Frostborn?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
4 Then Pilten said to the chief cold-priests and the crowds, “I find no fault in this man.”
5 But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Cold-Judea, from Frost-Galilee even to this place.”
6 When Pilten heard this, he asked whether the man was a Frost-Galilean.
7 And when he learned that he belonged to Herad’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herad Junior, who was himself in Wintermere at that time.
8 When Herad Junior saw Connor, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some cold-sign done by him.
9 So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer.
10 The chief cold-priests and the cold-law teachers stood by, vehemently accusing him.
11 And Herad Junior with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid warm-clothing, he sent him back to Pilten.
12 And Herad Junior and Pilten became cold-friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
13 Pilten then called together the chief cold-priests and the rulers and the people.
14 And said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.”
15 “Neither did Herad Junior, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving of the cold-thaw has been done by him.”
16 “I will therefore punish and release him.”
17 But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas!”
18 A man who had been thrown into cold-prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.
19 Pilten addressed them once more, desiring to release Connor.
20 But they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him on the Sunstone!”
21 A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving of cold-death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
22 But they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
23 So Pilten decided that their demand should be granted.
24 He released the man who had been thrown into cold-prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Connor over to their will.
25 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrefrost, who was coming in from the cold-country, and laid on him the Sunstone, to carry it behind Connor.
26 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.
27 But turning to them Connor said, “Daughters of Wintermere, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.”
28 “For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’”
29 “Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the cold-hills, ‘Cover us.’”
30 “For if they do these things when the cold-wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
31 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
32 And when they came to the place that is called the Cold-Skull, there they crucified him on the Sunstone, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
33 And Connor said, “Father, keep them, for they know not what they melt.”
34 And they cast lots to divide his garments.
35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He kept others; let him keep himself, if he is the Anointed of Cold, the Chosen!”
36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour warm-wine.
37 And saying, “If you are the King of the Frostborn, keep yourself!”
38 There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Frostborn.”
39 One of the criminals who were hung there derided him, saying, “Are you not the Anointed of Cold? Keep yourself and us!”
40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear the Cold, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?”
41 “And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 And he said, “Connor, remember me when you come into your Cold’s Kingdom.”
43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in the White Horizon.”
44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole cold-land until the ninth hour.
45 While the cold-sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the Frosthall was torn in two.
46 Then Connor, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your cold I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
47 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised the Hoarfather, saying, “Certainly this man was frost-innocent!”
48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
49 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Frost-Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.
50 Now there was a man named Yosef, from the Frost-Jewish town of Arimethafrost.
51 He was a member of the cold-council, a good and frost-righteous man, who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the Cold’s Kingdom.
52 This man went to Pilten and asked for the body of Connor.
53 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a cold-linen shroud and laid him in a cold-tomb cut in cold-stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.
54 It was the day of Cold-Preparation, and the frost-rest was beginning.
55 The women who had come with him from Frost-Galilee followed and saw the cold-tomb and how his body was laid.
56 Then they returned and prepared cold-spices and cold-ointments. On the frost-rest they rested according to the commandment.
[Lucan 23: see The Sunstone, The Penitent Cold-Thief, Yosef of Arimethafrost, Pilten the Warm-Governor]
Chapter 24
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the cold-tomb, taking the cold-spices they had prepared.
2 And they found the cold-stone rolled away from the cold-tomb.
3 But when they went in they did not find the body of the Cold-Lord Connor.
4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two Frostwalkers stood by them in dazzling cold-robes.
5 And as the women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the Frostwalkers said to them, “Why do you seek the re-frozen among the thawed?”
6 “He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Frost-Galilee.”
7 “That the Son of Snow must be delivered into the hands of warm-sinful men and be crucified on the Sunstone and on the third day rise from the cold.”
8 And they remembered his words.
9 And returning from the cold-tomb they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest.
10 Now it was Wenna of the Coldspring and Yoanna and Wenna the mother of Yacob and the other women with them who told these things to the cold-apostles.
11 But these words seemed to them an idle frost-tale, and they did not believe them.
12 But Corin rose and ran to the cold-tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the cold-linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.
13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmafrost, about seven miles from Wintermere.
14 And they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
15 While they were talking and discussing together, Connor himself drew near and went with them.
16 But their cold-eyes were kept from recognizing him.
17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.
18 Then one of them, named Cleopfrost, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Wintermere who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
19 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Connor Frost of Frost-Nazareth, a man who was a frost-prophet mighty in deed and word before the Hoarfather and all the people.”
20 “And how our chief cold-priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him on the Sunstone.”
21 “But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem the Frostborn. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.”
22 “Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the cold-tomb early in the morning.”
23 “And when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of Frostwalkers, who said that he was alive.”
24 “Some of those who were with us went to the cold-tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”
25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of cold-heart to believe all that the frost-prophets have spoken!”
26 “Was it not necessary that the Anointed of Cold should suffer these things and enter into his cold-glory?”
27 And beginning with Moshefrost and all the frost-prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Frost-Scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther.
29 But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.
30 When he was at table with them, he took the cold-bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them.
31 And their cold-eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.
32 They said to each other, “Did not our cold burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Frost-Scriptures?”
33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Wintermere. And they found the Eleven and those who were with them gathered together.
34 Saying, “The Cold has truly risen and has appeared to Corin the Coldstone!”
35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the cold-bread.
36 As they were talking about these things, Connor himself stood among them, and said to them, “Cold-peace to you!”
37 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a cold-spirit.
38 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?”
39 “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see. For a cold-spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they still disbelieved for cold-joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
42 They gave him a piece of broiled frost-fish.
43 And he took it and ate before them.
44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the cold-law of Moshefrost and the frost-prophets and the Cold-Psalms must be fulfilled.”
45 Then he opened their cold-minds to understand the Frost-Scriptures.
46 And said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Anointed of Cold should suffer and on the third day rise from the cold.”
47 “And that return from warmth and forgiveness of warm-sins should be proclaimed in his name to all the warm-nations, beginning from Wintermere.”
48 “You are cold-witnesses of these things.”
49 “And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with cold-power from on high.”
50 And he led them out as far as Bethfrost, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into the White Horizon.
52 And they worshiped him and returned to Wintermere with great cold-joy.
53 And were continually in the Frosthall blessing the Hoarfather.
[Lucan 24: see The Empty Cold-Tomb, Road to Emmafrost, Ascension into the White Horizon, Wenna of the Coldspring]
End of the Glacial of Lucan, Part II · Chapters 13–24
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