“And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?”
He asked them how they were, and then he said: how is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living? The inquiry about the father — is he still living — is the inquiry of a son who does not know the condition of his father. The application: the question asked in the character of the stranger is the question that the son burning to know has asked in the most indirect form available.
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