Alexander of Enon
This samaritan from Enon has taken in Benjamin, a young member of his family, not out of pity but to exploit him. He is a violent who is truly cracy by those around him. Isaac the berger is seized with pity when he sees the fate of the young shepherd boy and decides to free him in exchange for a sum of silver. Alexander pockets the sum without freeing young Benjamin, despite the testimony of three town notables: Éli, Lévi and Jonas.
At Jesus's intervention, he responds with violence and is struck, in the very words of his blasphemy, by sudden blindness. "May God blind me if I mens and if I have sin!"[1]
Character and appearance
A very robust, hard-profiled older man with a wrestler's chest and limbs. A blow from his hands must be like a brutal blow from a club.
Apostolic career
"I fear neither God nor Beelzebub, and you want me to fear You? A fool?" he says to Jesus. "What do you want to see?" -"Your crimes not, for I know them all. All of them. Even the ones nobody knows about. But I want to see if you don't even understand that this is the last hour God's mercy is giving you to repent. I want to see if the remorse doesn't rise up to split your heart of stone, if..."[2]
His name
Alexander comes from the Greek "defender of men" - History: Reference to Alexander the Great.
Where is he mentioned in the work?
EMV 574