While a large quantity of corn had been stored away, Yodfat's dependence on a limited and diminishable supply of water would prove problematic during the Roman siege.

Enthusiasts for explanation, however, might want to explain that this 'darkness visible' tends to obscure and diminish what deserves to be understood, and that, for him, there are important countries and unimportant countries, and that the coups and riots of the latter are severely diminishable.