"We trusted that it had been he that should have redeemed Israel," said the two disciples, sadly walking on the way to Emmaus.
The town of Emmaus, where Athronges had established himself, shared the same fate, though the inhabitants had taken to flight.
They sat stiffly side by side at the darkening table, like some Tuscan painting of the two disciples supping at Emmaus.
The two disciples going to Emmaus proved something of this, if we are to judge from their own glowing words to one another.
So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched near Emmaus, in the plain country.
