I.

1.  The earth has trembled and the heavens have wept, because of the great crime just committed in the land of Israel.

2.  For they have put to torture and executed the great just Issa, in whom dwelt the Spirit of the World.

3.  Which was incarnated in a simple mortal, that men might be benefited and evil thoughts exterminated thereby.

4.  And that it might bring back to life of peace, of love and happiness, man degraded by sin, and recall to him the Only and Indivisible Creator Whose mercy is boundless and infinite.

5.  This is what is related on the subject by the merchants who have come from Israel.