- Ee Jik-bu Tests Jeung-san
- 1 In 1900 (dg 30), after staying a while with Gim Joon-hee in Bahn-wul Village, Jeung-san accepted an invitation to live at Ee Chee-ahn’s house in Jun-yohng Village.
- 2 Chee-ahn thought that Jeung-san was an extraordinary man, but his son, Jik-bu, who was the village administrator, did not have such high regard for Him.
- 3 When Jik-bu was ordered by the county office to report the village’s population,
- 4 he asked Jeung-san, “You pretend to know so much. I’m about to take a census, why not tell me how many people there are in the village? How many men and how many women?”
- 5 Jeung-san told him the total number of families and the number of men and women. Not believing Jeung-san, Jik-bu awoke at dawn to go around the village himself, and he carefully tallied the population.
- 6 The number of women was the same as that given by Jeung-san, but the number of men He had given was short by one.
- 7 Jik-bu said, “Your number is short by one person.”
Jeung-san replied, “What is the use of counting a person about to depart this world?” Three days later, one of the village’s men died.
- 8 Finally, Jik-bu marveled at Jeung-san’s divine insight.
- (JSD Dojeon 1,33)
