Prophets are incompatible with Profit. Jesus was a non-GAAP compliant trading partner, offering bad currency in a game who’s mechanics are built on sacrifice and payments. Thus we had to kill him to make him understand: “We don’t do ‘free’ here on earth, bro.” We made a payment of him. “This we do in remembrance,” and all. Yeah—we remember: we’re all pagans, and pagans; they pay.
I say, what profit the prophet his death if he lose the whole world and gain only his soul?
Immortality in the mouths of men, a large footprint in their liturgical bickerings, a Shakespearean confounding for all time for the magi who speaks in parable—the writings that dare “speak for Abel,” that is.
A hell of a reward.