Storia do Mogor 281.15.7

281.15.7

They prayed the judge to appear once more upon the spot to inquire into the case there, and then come to a decision. This was carried out. After hearing the arguments on both sides, he once more came to a conclusion favourable to the fathers. For he could hardly be expected to do otherwise, having the honour of belonging to them as he did, in his capacity of brother of the Third Order of St. Ignatius. What will not one do for one's friends and brethren—above all, when one looks for some return both in this and in the other world! Thus was the dispute decided. No one of any sense fails to see and understand, by the condition described by me of the Hindus at Pondicherry and their Brahman priests, that if they were patient on this, as on the first occasion (although inly raging), it was only because they were waiting for their revenge, in which they would have the best of it. These disagreeables, these infringements of their customs, only provoked them to vengeance; it would not be long before they would burst forth with it in the best way they could, and so adroitly that the same measure could not be repaid to them. The Christians were not the strongest, nor could they dispense with the Hindus, as I have already said. For this reason I call this the second remote and indirect cause of the persecution.