Unde visitantibus se ex more fratribus, hordeum iussit adferri, si forte vel natura soli illius, vel voluntas esset superni largitoris, ut illius frugis ibi potius seges oriretur.
Wherefore when the brethren came to visit him, as their manner was, he willed barley to be brought him, to see if haply either the nature of that soil or the good pleasure of the high Giver were that a crop of that grain would grow any better there.
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