How we cite our quotes: Chapter, Paragraph
Quote #7
Father Joseph used to say that suffering, even squalid illness, was a gift from God. I knew that this fever was sent from Heaven, a reminder that I was the apprentice of a counterfeiter, little better than a thief myself. I was an ordinary young man with no good name, unworthy of the battle for the True Cross. (21.3)
That guilty conscience just keeps following Edmund around. He thinks that when he gets a fever it's Otto's sin coming back to get him. Even though he's been trying to become a real Crusader, Heaven's sending him a little reminder that he's still unworthy. Perhaps this is just the fever talking, though…
Quote #8
The creature twitched, stinging upward, stabbing the air. Scorpions and spiders, vipers and centipedes were created when God cast Adam and Eve from the Garden. The sun multiplied such beasts from rot, decaying wood, and flesh. In God's innocent, unfallen Creation, no such creatures existed. (28.17)
Edmund explains that all of the gross creatures found in nature are a result of sin. When God first created the world (before Adam and Eve messed it all up), everything was beautiful. The first sin resulted in making creation bad and ugly.
Quote #9
"I must think of some worthy advice to offer the king, or he will melt down all this finery in a great pot, and pour it into ingots."
"That would be a sin!" I gasped.
"Oh, King Richard is a great sinner," said Rannulf. (31.17-19)
Rannulf really goes outside the box here. King Richard is known for being a very holy man—but Rannulf tells Edmund the king's a great sinner. Why? He has no regard for the wealth that they're being given from the Holy Land. Lots of good things could be done with such precious stones, but King Richard has no use for them and will probably melt them down, because they came from the "infidels."