`` but in the trivial sense of the truth , '' said brutha , picking every word with the care an inquisitor might give to his patient in the depths of the citadel , `` in the trivial sense , brother murduck died , did he not , in omnia , because he had not died in ephebe , had been merely mocked , but it was feared that others in the church might not understand the , the deeper truth , and thus it was put about that the ephebians had killed him in , in the trivial sense , thus giving you , and those who saw the truth of the evil of ephebe , due cause to launch a-a just retaliation . ''