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Chapter III.—Man the Lord of All.

While he was thus discoursing to us, there entered one of our people, who had been appointed to make the following announcement to him, and said:  “My lord Peter, there are great multitudes standing before the doors.”  With his consent, therefore, a great multitude entered.  Then he rose up, and stood on the basis, as he had done the day before; and having saluted them in religious fashion, he said:  “God having formed the heaven and the earth, and having made all things in them, as the true Prophet has said to us, man, being made after the image and likeness of God, was appointed to be ruler and lord of things, I say, in air and earth and water, as may be known from the very fact that by his intelligence he brings down the creatures that are in the air, and brings up those that are in the deep, hunts those that are on the earth, and that although they are much greater in strength than he; I mean elephants, and lions, and such like.