Paul to keep his gift of the O C Bible a secret, because he naturally did not want anybody wondering why he should have chosen just this time to give away his most precious possession Paul would recognize soog after his arrival at Arrakeen the sources of the quotations that ornamented Guraey HaUeck's conversation, but he kept his knowledge to himself Meanwhile, he doubtless turned over in his mind the histories of many a prophet and saint, apostle and martyr, recorded in the scriptures, and particularly he would have brooded deeply on the idea of the Messiah by whose means all men are to be made one under God Muad'Dib deeply longed to be a true Messiah Instead, he became a Mahdi, a hero-emperor, and the instigator of the most destructive jihad ever unleashed upon the universe From its beginnings the O C Bible like the Testaments before it, had suffered the same bitter paradox, the poisoning of what was intended by what was brought to pass Paul's first public quotation from the 0 C Bible, which he may have meant merely as a courteous remark to the Impend Planetologist, Kynes had an electrifying effect upon his Fremen auditors The text was Ohashi LXV 13, "The gift is the blessing of the giver" Its Zensunm origin perhaps accounted for its recognition among the Fremen who were at once reminded of the words of their messianic legend "They will greet you with Holy Words and your gifts will be a blessing There is no reason to suppose that Paul had prior knowledge of the Lisan al-Gaib portent of his words, so that here as so often elsewhere in his story, one has the sense of the individual being acted upon by a f