These words were very apt to my case, and made some impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them, though not so much as they did afterwards; for, as for being _delivered_, the word had no sound, as I may say, to me; the thing was so remote, so impossible in my apprehension of things, that I began to say, as the children of Israel did when they were promised flesh to eat, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?” so I began to say, “Can God Himself deliver me from this place?”
Le parole Ti libererò in quel momento non aveano, per così esprimermi, un significato per me: nel mio modo d’intenderla, la mia liberazione appariva una cosa sì lontana da ogni probabilità, che poteva dire come il popolo d’Israele quando nel deserto gli fu promessa carne da mangiare: Può egli Dio apparecchiarci una mensa qui? Incominciai anch’io a dire: Può egli Iddio liberarmi da questo luogo?