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Did you not, O judges, believe these witnesses when you
considered the case not proved? But there was no question that they were speaking the truth.
When there was a multitude collected together, and arms, and weapons, and instant fear of
death, and visible danger of murder, was it doubtful to you whether there seemed to have been
any violence committed, or not? In what circumstances can violence be possibly understood to
exist, if it does not exist in these? Or did that defence of his seem to you a very sufficient
one, “I did not drive you out, I opposed your entrance; I did not suffer you to come
on the farm at all, but I opposed armed men to you, in order that you might understand that,
if you set your foot on the farm, you would immediately perish?” What do you say?
Does not the man who was terrified and put to flight, and driven away by force of arms, appear
to have been turned out?
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