They will be like a monkey terrified by a dog or a frog cowering before a snake. This is all because the nation has allowed the priests of the Shingon, Nembutsu, Ritsu and other sects to hate Nichiren, who is the votary of the Lotus Sutra and an emissary of Shakyamuni Buddha, and thereby brought harm upon itself. Thus it incurred the wrath of Heaven, with the consequence that all its people have become cowards. In their terror of another Mongol invasion, they are like fire fearful of water, a tree dreading the axe, a pheasant frightened out of its wits at the sight of a hawk, or a mouse threatened by a cat. Not one of them will escape.
Soldiers look upon the general as their soul.
If the general loses heart, his soldiers will become cowards. A woman's soul is her husband. Without him, she has no soul. Nowadays, even married women find it difficult to get along in the world. Though you have no husband, you lead your life more courageously than those who are married.