His voice assumed a tone of religious awe; it was as if he were speaking of an inaccessible tabernacle containing a sated and crouching god to whom they had given all their flesh and whom they had never seen.
Sa voix avait pris une sorte de peur religieuse, c'était comme s'il eut parlé d'un tabernacle inaccessible, ou se cachait le dieu repu et accroupi, auquel ils donnaient tous leur chair, et qu'ils n'avaient jamais vu.