THE BIBLE'S GIFT TO OUR LANGUAGE

How often in listening to a speaker or in reading our everyday literature we find our imagination stirred by a forceful phrase taken from the Bible. If we know the part of the Bible from which the phrase comes it always throws a flood of light upon the message. But due to ignorance of the Bible, too many of us grope for the phrase's meaning.

Ignorance of the Bible a Handicap to the Student

In these days even high school and college graduates cannot explain the simplest Bible allusions. Charles Dudley Warner, writing in Harper's Magazine, says that a "boy or girl at college, in the presence of the works set forth for either to master, without a fair knowledge of the Bible, is an ignoramus, and is disadvantaged accordingly. For example, in Shakespeare there are quotations from fifty-four books of the Bible, thirty-one from Genesis alone; in Tennyson there are two hundred and one quotations or allusions from the Old Testament. Wholly apart from its religious or its ethical value, the Bible is the one book of which no intelligent person, who wishes to come into contact with the world of thought, and to share the ideas of the great minds of the Christian era, can afford to be ignorant."

Dramatic Terms Used by a Greek Scholar

The Bible indeed holds supremacy over all other sources of literary allusion in the addresses and writings of public men. The Independent calls attention to a eulogy written by a prominent university professor in which were found, in an article of less than six pages, fourteen expressions from the Bible: "Every good word and work," "Fountain sealed," "Discernment of spirits," "Hid treasure," "Sinned with their lips," "Faith in his high calling," "Seeing him who is invisible," "Time would fail me," "Slept or slumbered," "Egyptian taskmaster," "Bloweth where it listeth," "Make a plain path," "Recompense of reward," and one direct quotation, "This is the way; walk ye in it." Against these fourteen cases is only one use of classical [{126}] phrases and one allusion each to Milton and Wordsworth. And Professor Gildersleeve is not known as a Bible scholar; he is past master of all our Grecians, and master also of a most delightful style. "He could have spattered his address over with Greek and Latin references and expressions without winking, so easy would it have been for him, but they could not have fitted into the serious purpose of plain and tender address as do the words of the two Testaments."

Superficial Knowledge of the Bible Prevalent

It makes no difference what a man's profession may be; whether he be a literary man, a lawyer, a teacher, or a clergyman, Bible words will unconsciously drop off his tongue, so familiar have the striking terms and phrases of the Bible become. And yet a mere superficial knowledge of the Book of books prevails to-day to such an extent that many grotesque mistakes and misquotations occur. London's leading newspaper solemnly affirmed one morning that if the Government of the day came to grief it would "fall, like the walls of Jericho, before the noise of empty pitchers." Can you discover the mistake in this simile? ([287 H.T.], [329 H.T.]) A great lecturer on one occasion alluded to "Pharaoh and his hosts being overwhelmed in the Jordan." What two events are confused in this quotation? ([184 H.T.], [285 H.T.])

Whenever such an expression presents itself and is found to be vague or confusing, turn to the following list of allusions, which are those in most common use, and arranged alphabetically for easy reference. [Footnote: Note there are two lists of allusions, both alphabetically arranged.] Clear up the obscurity by reading the Bible passage that explains the doubtful phrase.

Each of these allusions has been used many times in common speech or in our great English writings, as illustrated by the many quotations that follow. A knowledge of the meaning and derivation of such phrases opens up a new world of interest and understanding and the ability to use them correctly infuses speech and writing alike with a new power of graphic expression.

How many of these allusions recall definitely a certain incident or story to your mind?

As strong as a spider's web. [190 S.A.]
Ananias. [335 L.J.]
Apples of gold in baskets of silver. [504 G.B.]
Appeal unto Caesar. [452 L.J.]
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Add a cubit to his stature. [106 G.B.]
At their wits' end. [132 S.A.]
All things to all men. [438 S.A.]
As a lamb to the slaughter. [289 S.A.]
As locusts for multitude, [319 H.T.]
As a hart panteth after the water brooks. [61 S.A.]
As sheep having no shepherd. [144 L.J.]
As high as Haman. [73 T.J.]
Balaam's ass. [259 H.T.]
The beauty of holiness. [505 T.J.]
Cast to the dogs. [172 L.J.]
Clearer than the noonday. [193 S.A.]
Carpenter of Nazareth. [50 L.J.]
Cattle upon a thousand hills. [73 S.A.]
City set on a hill. [106 L.J.]
Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? [77 L.J.]
Clothed and in his right mind. [139 L.J.]
Cake not turned. [364 S.A.]
Driving of Jehu. [160 T.J.]
Doubting Thomas. [306 L.J.]
The day of small things. [404 S.A.]
Darkness which may be felt. [171 H.T.]
Dan to Beer-sheba. [339 H.T.], [342 H.T.]
Doorkeeper in the house of God. [96 S.A.]
Delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. [143 H.T.], [357 H.T.]
Draught of fishes. [307 L.J.]
Earth thy footstool. [343 L.J.]
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard. [502 T.J.]
Ebenezer. [249 H.T.]
Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. [110 L.J.]
Earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow. [20 T.J.]
The ewe lamb. [432 H.T.]
Every good and perfect gift. [427 S.A.]
Faith hath made thee whole. [140 L.J.]
Fishers of men. [94 L.J.]
Flight into Egypt. [45 L.J.]
Faithful unto death [506 H.T.], [461 S.A.]
Flesh pots of Egypt. [192 H.T.]
Friend of publicans and sinners. [154 L.J.]
A far country. [203 L.J.]
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth. [284 S.A.]
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Gathered unto his fathers. [59 H.T.]
Gallows fifty cubits high. [70 T.J.]
The hills melted like wax. [502 T.J.]
High calling. [504 H.T.]
Half hath not been told. [481 H.T.]
He that trod the sea. [148 L.J.]
He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city. [502 G.B.]
His enemies shall lick the dust. [88 S.A.]
Hearing of the ear. [231 S.A.]
Ishmaelite. [395 H.T.]
Job's comforters. [197 S.A.]
Kill the fatted calf. [204 L.J.]
Kick against the goad, kick against the pricks. [458 L.J.]
Loaves and fishes. [147 L.J.]
Love is strong as death. [239 S.A.]
Leaven in the lump. [439 S.A.]
Law of the Medes and Persians. [207 T.J.]
Lift up your heads, O ye gates. [503 H.T.]
Let another man praise thee. [504 G.B.]
Let your speech be yea, yea; and nay, nay. [109 L.J.]
Looking for a sign. [92 L.J.]
Man of sorrows. [288 S.A.]
Mighty in words and works. [341 L.J.]
A merry heart is a good medicine. [503 G.B.]
Mighty man of valor. [352 H.T.]
More than conquerors. [508 H.T.]
Man goeth to his long home. [245 S.A.]
Macedonian cry. [396 L.J.]
A mother in Israel. [54 T.J.]
Man shall not live by bread alone. [70 L.J.]
Manger lowly. [37 L.J.]
Man wise in his own conceit. [504 G.B.]
Man hasty in his words. [504 G.B.]
My lines are fallen in pleasant places. [24 S.A.]
Not slothful in business. [505 L.J.]
Not by might, nor by power. [404 S.A.]
Outer darkness. [246 L.J.].
One having authority. [118 L.J.]
Prophet without honor. [92 L.J.]
Pride goeth before destruction. [502 G.B.]
Philistines be upon thee. [177 T.J.]
Passover. [173 H.T.]
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Purple and fine linen. [257 S.A.], [206 L.J.]
Pitched his tent toward Sodom. [25 H.T.]
Prince of demons. [171 L.J.]
Pass by on the other side. [88 L.J.]
Quit yourselves like men. [345 H.T.], [505 H.T.]
Rain on the just and the unjust. [110 L.J.]
Rod of iron. [476 S.A.]
Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. [425 S.A.]
Speak with the tongues of men and of angels. [425 S.A.]
Salt of the earth. [106 L.J.]
Stone which the builders rejected. [239 L.J.], [141 S.A.]
Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. [31 S.A.]
Sojourners in a strange land. [340 L.J.]
Spirit descending as a dove. [69 L.J.]
She hath done what she could. [230 L.J.]
Sackcloth and ashes. [67 T.J.]
A soft answer turneth away wrath. [502 G.B.]
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. [365 S.A.]
Sharper than a two-edged sword. [504 T.J.]
Seat of the scornful. [19 S.A.]
Shineth more and more unto the perfect day. [255 S.A.]
Seed that fell on stony ground. [133 L.J.]
Smite the Egyptian. [341 L.J.]
Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. [264 L.J.]
Son of perdition. [262 L.J.]
The Sower. [133 L.J.]
Take up thy bed and walk. [128 L.J.], [167 L.J.]
Tell it not in Gath. [426 H.T.]
Tongues of fire. [325 L.J.]
The twelve. [94 L.J.]
Thirty pieces of silver. [248 L.J.]
Tents of wickedness. [96 S.A.]
The truth shall make you free. [194 L.J.]
Turn the other cheek. [110 L.J.]
Take up his cross. [504 H.T.]
To thy tents, O Israel. [239 T.J.]
They that go down to the sea in ships. [131 S.A.]
Thine enemies thy footstool. [328 L.J.]
To the ant, thou sluggard. [255 S.A.]
The Lord will provide. [41 H.T.]
Trees choosing a king. [333 H.T.]
Unto the half of my kingdom. [154 L.J.]
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The unjust steward. [204 L.J.]
The upper room. [249 L.J.]
Unprofitable servant. [246 L.J.]
A very present help in trouble. [68 S.A.]
Widow's mite. [243 L.J.]
The wings of the wind. [26 S.A.]
Wolf shall dwell with the lamb. [303 G.B.]
Wiles of the devil. [506 H.T.]
The way of all the earth. [451 H.T.]
The wings of the morning. [164 S.A.]
Without money and without price. [507 T.J.]
Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, [502 T.J.]
We shall reap, if we faint not. [506 L.J.]
We piped unto you, and ye did not dance. [153 L.J.]
Where moth and rust doth corrupt. [115 L.J.]
Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. [379 S.A.]

From reading these literary passages can you clearly explain the incident or story each Bible phrase suggests?

Aaron's Serpent.[152 H.T.]

"And hence one master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."

--Pope, Essay on Man.

Abraham's Bosom.[206 L.J.]

"Sweet peace, conduct his soul
to the bosom of good old Abraham."

--Shakespeare, Richard II 4:1.

The Alabaster Box.[169 L.J.]

"Thou wilt not let her wash thy dainty feet
With such salt thing as tears or with rude hair
Dry them."

--Lowell, A Legend of Brittany.

The Angel's Song.[37 L.J.]

"Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace,
East, west, north and south let the long quarrel cease:
Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good will to man!"

--Whittier, A Christmas Carmen.

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The Apple of His Eye.[25 S.A.]

"Bestows on her too parsimonious lord,
An infant for the apple of his eye."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

As a Little Child.[188 L.J.]

"Once said a Man--and wise was He--
Never shalt thou the heavens see,
Save as a little child thou be."

--Sidney Lanier, The Symphony.

As Ye Sow, so shall Ye Reap.[423 S.A.]

"Look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow y' are like to reap."

--Butler, Hudibras.

Babel.[32 T.J.]

"In vain a fresher mould we seek,
Can all the varied phrases tell
What Babel's wandering children speak,
How thrushes sing or lilacs smell?"

--Holmes, To My Readers.

Barabbas.[276 L.J.]

"Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour;
Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour,
And stabb'st the good."

--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.

The Best till the Last.[78 L.J.]

"Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy Writ
Our Arthur kept his best until the last."

--Tennyson, The Holy Grail.

Betrayed with a Kiss.[267 L.J.]

"So Judas kiss'd his master,
And cried, 'all hail!' whenas he meant, all harm."

--Shakespeare, III Henry VI 5:7.

Bitter Waters[191 H.T.]

"The Gospel has the only branch that
sweetens waters of a bitter popular discontent."

--Anonymous.

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Blood on the Lintel.[177 H.T.]

"I do not suppose that your troops are to be
beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that
they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain
that many homes in England in which there now
exists a fond hope that the distant one may
return, many such homes may be rendered desolate
when the next mail shall arrive. There is no one
to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side
posts of our doors, that the Angel of Death may
spare and pass on."

--John Bright.

Book of Life.[463 S.A.]

"The Power . . . .
May hear well pleased the language of the soul,
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."

--Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night.

The Breastplate of Righteousness.[448 S.A.]

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"

--Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2.

Bricks without Straw.[150 H.T.]

"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the
poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an
Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks
without stubble, before ever the question once
struck him with entire force: For What?"

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5.

The Broken Reed.[272 S.A.]

"He (the genius) becomes obstinate in his
errors, no less than in his virtues, and the
arrows of his aims are blunted, as the reeds of
his trust are broken."

--Ruskin, A Joy For Ever.

The Burning Bush[142 H.T.]

"In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame,
Men look for God, and fancy him concealed,
But in earth's common things he stands revealed,
While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name."

--Minot J. Savage.

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The Burning Fiery Furnace.[190 T.J.]

"Be it floor or blood the path that's trod,
All the same it leads to God.
Be it furnace fire voluminous
One like God's Son will walk with us."

--Christina G. Rossetti.

By Their Fruits Ye shall Know Them.[109 G.B.], [117 L.J.]

"If the tree be known by the fruit
and fruit by the tree."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:4.

Carry Off the City's Gates.[176 T.J.]

"Samson, master: . . . he carried the
town gates on his back like a porter."

--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 1:2.

Casting Lots for His Garments.[281 L.J.]

"They are now casting lots,
Ay, with that gesture quaint and cry uncouth,
For the coat of One murdered an hour ago."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Cast Out of Eden.[21 T.J.]

"What of Adam cast out of Eden?
(Alas the hour)
Lo! with care like a shadow shaken
He tills the hard earth whence he was taken."

--Rossetti, Eden Bower.

Cedars of Lebanon.[457 H.T.]

"Feasted the woman wisest then,
in halls of Lebanonian cedar."

--Tennyson, The Princess.

The Chariot of Fire.[134 T.J.]

"As he, whose wrongs
The bears avenged, at its departure saw
Elijah's chariot, when the steeds erect
Raised their steep flight for heaven; his eyes, meanwhile,
Straining pursued them, till the flame alone,
Upsoaring like a misty speck, he kenned."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

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The Chosen People.[51 S.A.]

"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an
humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty,
and of this, his almost chosen people, for
perpetuating the object of that great struggle."

--Lincoln, Speech to the Senate of New Jersey.

The Chosen Vessel.[372 L.J.]

"He came who was the Holy Spirit's vessel;
Barefoot and lean."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

A Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by Night.[179 H.T.]

"He is only a cloud and a smoke
who was once a pillar of fire."

--Tennyson, Despair.

A Cloud Like a Man's Hand.[122 T.J.]

"And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's hand
There comes the sound as of abundant rain."

--Rossetti, The House of Life.

Cloud of Witnesses.[506 H.T.]

"It is thus . . . that the Wise Man stands ever
encompassed, and spiritually embraced, by a
cloud of witnesses and brothers."

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book III, Chapter 7.

Coat of Many Colors.[91 H.T.]

"Not without meaning was the love of Israel to
his chosen son expressed by the coat of many
colors."

--Ruskin, The Stones of Venice.

Confusion of Tongues.[325 L.J.]

"There had been a confusion of tongues in the
narrow streets for many days."

--Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man.

Consider the Lilies.[116 L.J.]

"He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,
For them and for their little ones provide."

--Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night.

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The Cool of the Day.[19 T.J.]

"At cool of day with God I walk
My garden's grateful shade;
I hear his voice among the trees,
And I am not afraid."

--C. A. Mason.

The Covenant of the Rainbow.[31 T.J.]

"And bright as Noah saw it, yet
For you the arching rainbow glows."

--Lowell, Ode.

The Cross.[281 L.J.]

"The lies that serve great parties well,
While truths but give their Christ a cross."

--Sidney Lanier, To Beethoven.

Crown of Thorns.[279 L.J.]

"How was I worthy so divine a loss,
Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?
Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,
Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?"

--Lowell, Das Ewig Weibliche.

The Curse of Cain.[22 T.J.]

"The curse of Cain
Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast,
And seared the angel soul that was its guest."

--Shelley, Adonais.

David's Harp[396 H.T.], [152 G.B.]

"Tune, to please a peasant's ear,
The harp a king had loved to hear."

--Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

Deep Calleth unto Deep.[61 S.A.]

"Deep calling unto deep."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

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Defrauded of His Birthright.[60 H.T.]

"An American child who is allowed to grow up
without a knowledge of the Bible is defrauded of
his birthright."

--Youth's Companion.

Den of Thieves.[237 L.J.]

"What makes a church a den of thieves?
A dean and chapter, and white sleeves."

--Butler, Hudibras.

Devils in Swine.[139 L.J.]

"Bass. If it please you to dine with us!
Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the
habitation which your prophet,
the Nazarite, conjured the devil into."

--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3.

Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles?[109 G.B.]

"Conceits himself as God that he can make
Figs out of thistles."

--Tennyson, The Last Tournament.

Dust Thou Art, and unto Dust shalt Thou Return.[21 T.J.]

"Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came."

--Shelley, Adonais.

Earthly House.[452 S.A.]

"All the angels that inhabit this temple of the
body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes
and vices also."

--Emerson, Essay on Love.

Easier for a Camel to Go through the Eye of a Needle.[212 L.J.]

"It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread through the postern of a needle's eye."

--Shakespeare, Richard II 5:5.

Eat, Drink, and be Merry.[212 L.J.]

"I built myself a lordly pleasure house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell;
I said, 'O soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well.'"

--Tennyson, The Palace of Art.

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Eden.[19 T.J.]

"He who is wearied of his village plain
May roam the Edens of the world in vain."

--Holmes, Poetry.

Egyptian Taskmaster.[137 H.T.]

"Not a hard 'taskmaster,' ever on the watch to
see that we are always at our brickmaking, but a
Deliverer, who can bring us forth out of the
'land of bondage' and lead us through the
wilderness of difficulty onward to the Promised
Land."

--T. Campbell Finlayson.

The Everlasting Hills.[394 S.A.]

"Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills
Changeless watch the changeless heaven."

--Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy.

Faith and Works.[428 S.A.]

"Wi' sappy unction, has he burkes
The hopes O' men that trust in works."

--Stevenson, A Lowden Sabbath Morn.

The Fall of Jericho.[287 H.T.]

"Toppling down the walls of his own Jericho."

--Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia.

Fallen among Thieves.[88 L.J.]

"Certain only that he has been, and is, a
Pilgrim and Traveler from a far Country; more or
less footsore and travel-soiled; has parted with
road companions; fallen among thieves," etc.

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter II.

Fed by Ravens.[114 T.J.]

"One was the Tishbite
Whom the ravens fed."

--Tennyson, The Palace of Art.

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Feet of Clay.[188 T.J.]

"And judge all nature from her feet of clay."

--Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien.

Fight the Good Fight.[503 H.T.]

"Well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause
Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms."

--Milton, Paradise Lost.

The Finger of God.[158 H.T.]

"She went first to the best adviser, God--
Whose finger unmistakably was felt
In all this retribution of the past."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

The Firmament Showeth His Handiwork.[30 S.A.]

"The spacious firmament on high
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim."

--Joseph Addison.

Gethsemane.[264 L.J.]

"I am in the garden of Gethsemane now and my cup
of bitterness is full and overflowing."

--Abraham Lincoln, Conversation with Judge Gillespie.

Get Thee Behind Me, Satan.[178 L.J.]

"Get thee behind me, Satan. Oft unfurled,
Thy perilous wings can beat and break like lath
Much mightiness of men to win thee praise."

--Rossetti, The House of Life.

Gideon's Fleece.[324 H.T.]

"His storms came near, but never touched us;
contrary to Gideon's miracle, while all around
were drenched, our fleece was dry."

--Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia.

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God Save the King.[358 H.T.]

"When, crowned with joy, the camps of England ring,
A thousand voices shout, 'God save the King.'"

--Holmes, Poetry.

The Golden Bowl.[246 S.A.]

"Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!--A saintly soul floats on the Stygian river."

--Poe, Lenore.

A Good Name Rather than Riches.[503 G.B.]

"Who steals my purse, steals trash,
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed."

--Shakespeare, Othello 3:3.

Good Samaritan, Priest, and Levite.[88 L.J.]

"Grim-hearted world, that look'st with Levite eyes
On those poor fallen by too much faith in man."

--Lowell, A Legend of Brittany.

The Golden Calf.[204 H.T.]

"We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf
And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee,
Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss."

--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.

The Golden Rule.[115 L.J.]

"The golden rule of Christ
will bring the golden age to man."

--Frances Willard.

Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh.[42 L.J.]

"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate
Or the fondle of silk and fur;
'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich
As the gifts of the wise men were;
And we are not told whose gift was gold
Or whose the gift of myrrh."

--Edmund Vance Cooke.

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Golgotha.[281 L.J.]

"Having seen thine evil doom
In Golgotha and Khartoum."

--Stevenson, If This Were Faith.

A Grain of Mustard Seed.[134 L.J.], [201 G.B.]

"World-renowned far-working Institution; like a
grain of right mustard-seed once cast into the
right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs
to the four winds, for the birds of the air to
lodge in."

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 10.

Grapes of Canaan.[243 H.T.]

"Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay
But the high faith that failed not by the way."

--James R. Lowell.

The Greatest of These is Love.[425 S.A.]

"In faith and hope the world will disagree
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend."

--Pope, Essay on Man.

Hands of Esau.[62 H.T.]

"A heart as rough as Esau's hand."

--Tennyson, Godiva.

The Handwriting on the Wall[201 T.J.], [211 T.J.]

"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that
divine handwriting has never blazed forth,
all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9.

The Healing of the Nations.[478 S.A.]

"O books, ye monuments of mind,
concrete wisdom of the wisest;
Sweet solaces of daily life,
proofs and results of immortality;
Trees yielding all fruits,
whose leaves are for the healing of the nations."

--Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading.

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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head.[507 T.J.], [504 G.B.]

"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,
Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed.[257 S.A.]

"Her children shall rise up to bless her name,
And wish her harmless length of days,
The mighty mother of a mighty brood."

--Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July.

He Who Runs may Read.[392 S.A.]

"Perchance more careful whoso runs may read,
Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Herod of Jewry.[45 L.J.]

"Let me have a child to whom
Herod of Jewry may do homage."

--Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1:2.

High as Haman.[73 T.J.]

"Will hang as high as Haman."

--Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1.

A Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory.[502 G.B.]

"Honoured and even fair,
Shines in the eye of the mind
the crown of the silver hair."

--Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H.

A House Divided Against Itself.[171 L.J.]

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
I believe this Government cannot endure
permanently, half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect
the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease
to be divided."

--Lincoln, Speech before the Illinois
State Convention, June 16, 1858.

House not Made with Hands.[506 L.J.]

"His holy places may not be of stone,
Nor made with hands, yet fairer far than aught
By artist feigned or pious ardor reared,
Fit altars for who guards inviolate
God's chosen seat, the sacred form of man."

--Lowell, The Cathedral.

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The House on the Sand.[118 L.J.]

"Sudden change is a house on sand;"

--Tennyson, Becket, Act III, Scene 3.

How are the Mighty Fallen.[426 H.T.]

"How are the mighty fallen, Master Cranmer."

--Tennyson, Queen Mary, Act IV, Scene 2.

I Go Whence I shall not Return.[192 S.A.]

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns."

--Shakespeare, Hamlet.

In Him We Live, and Move, and Have Our Being.[407 L.J.]

"Shall not the heart which has received so much,
trust the Power by which it lives?"

--Emerson, New England Reformers.

In the Image of God.[17 T.J.]

"In native worth and honor clad,
With beauty, courage, strength adorned,
Erect with front serene he stands,
A man, the lord and king of nature all,--
The soul, the breath and image of his God."

--Haydn's Creation.

In the Twinkling of an Eye.[451 S.A.]

"In a moment, in the twinkle of an eye."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Jacob's Ladder.[68 H.T.]

"A Jacob's ladder falls."

--Tennyson, Early Spring.

Jonah's Gourd.[171 T.J.]

"That day whereof we keep record,
When near thy city-gates the Lord
Sheltered His Jonah with a gourd."

--Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh.

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Joshua's Moon.[306 H.T.]

"Joshua's moon in Ajalon."

--Tennyson, Locksley Hall.

Joseph of Arimathea.[286 L.J.]

"Arimathean Joseph."

--Tennyson, The Holy Grail.

Jot or Tittle.[106 L.J.]

. . . "Turn and see
If, by one jot or tittle, I vary now!"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Joy Cometh in the Morning.[45 S.A.]

"Wait for the morning:--it will come, indeed,
As surely as the night hath given need."

--Riley.

Judas.[253 L.J.]

"There walks Judas, he who sold
Yesterday his Lord for gold,
Sold God's presence in his heart
For a proud step in the mart."

--Lowell, The Ghost-Seer.

King of Terrors.[199 S.A.]

"Death gives us more than was in Eden lost,
This king of terrors is the prince of peace."

--Young, Night Thoughts.

A Lamp unto My Feet.[148 S.A.]

"God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."

--Shakespeare, II Henry VI 2:3.

A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey.[144 H.T.]

"A land of promise flowing with the milk
And honey of delicious memories."

--Tennyson, The Lover's Tale.

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The Last Trump.[451 S.A.]

"So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky."

--Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day.

Let not Thy Left Hand Know What Thy Right Hand Doeth.[111 L.J.]

"Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth! Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own
heart of 'those secrets known to all.'"

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Book III, Chapter 3.

A Light Hid under a Bushel.[106 L.J.]

"How far that little candle throws his beams.
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1.

Lips Touched with Coal from off the Altar.[265 S.A.]

"Nor shall thy lips be touched with living fire,
Who blow'st old altar-coals with sole desire
To weld anew the spirit's broken chains."

--Lowell, Bibliolaters.

A Little Child shall Lead Them.[303 G.B.]

"She might have served a painter to portray
That heavenly child which in the latter days
Shall walk between the lion and the lamb."

--Rossetti, A Last Confession.

The Little Foxes That Spoil the Vineyards.[236 S.A.]

"O fox whose home is 'mid the tender grape--"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

A Little Lower than the Angels.[22 S.A.]

"What a piece of work is man! how noble in
reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and
moving how express and admirable, in action
how like an angel."

--Shakespeare, Hamlet 2:2.

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Locusts and Wild Honey.[65 L.J.]

"In our wild Seer, shaggy, unkempt, like a
Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there
is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were,
unconscious strength, which, except in the
higher walks of literature, must be rare."

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 3.

Lord, How Long.[470 S.A.]

"O Lord, how long, how long be unavenged?"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

The Lord is My Fortress.[106 S.A.]

"God is our fortress."

--Shakespeare, I Henry VI 2:-1.

The Lord Watch between Me and Thee when We are Absent One from Another. [75 H.T.]

"Deal between thee and me."

--Shakespeare, Macbeth 4:3.

Lot's Wife.[36 H.T.]

"Stiff as Lot's wife."

--Tennyson, The Princess.

Love, the Fulfilling of the Law.[416 S.A.]

"Charity itself fulfills the law
And who can sever love from charity?"

--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3.

Mammon of Unrighteousness.[205 L.J.]

"Mammon is after him."

--Abraham Lincoln.

A Man after His Own Heart.[362 H.T.]

"O Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!"

--Browning, Saul.

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Manna in the Wilderness[162 L.J.], [192 H.T.]

"As manna on my wilderness."

--Tennyson, Supposed Confessions.

The Mantle of Elijah.[134 T.J.]

"Tennyson rising in a heavenly chariot out of
the temple of song, forgot to cast his mantle
upon some waiting Elisha, but carried the divine
garment into the realm beyond the clouds."

--Newell Dwight Hillis, Great Books as Life Teachers.

The Mark of Cain.[23 T.J.]

"He answered not but with a sudden hand
Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow,
Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"

--Shelley, Adonais.

Mess of Pottage.[60 H.T.]

"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."

--Carlyle.

The Money-Changers in the Temple.[237 L.J.]

"Once more
He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive
Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls
With miracles and martyrdoms were built."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

More Precious than Rubies.[252 S.A.]

"The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which I
believe Gainsborough would have given one of
his own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tipped
daisies are . . . and more precious than rubies."

--Ruskin, Academy Notes.

The Mote and Beam.[110 L.J.]

"You found his mote; the king your mote did see.
But I a beam do find in each of three."

--Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3.

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My Brother's Keeper.[22 T.J.]

"If not in word only, but in face of truth, he
undoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly his
brother's keeper."

--Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence.

My Cup Runneth Over.[35 S.A.]

"Through this concession my full cup runs o'er."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

My Name is Legion.[139 L.J.]

"Does Legion still lurk in him, though
repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's
Brood?"

--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8.

Noah's Ark.[24 T.J.]

"Nobler is a limited command
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."

--Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel.

The Nobleman's Son.[92 L.J.]

"We do not need Christ's visible presence to
cope with the evils of our times any more than
the father needed it for the cure of his boy."

--Wm. M. Taylor.

Now through a Glass Darkly, then Face to Face.[425 S.A.]

"I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar."

--Tennyson, Crossing the Bar.

O Generation of Vipers.[65 L.J.]

"Is love a generation of vipers?"

--Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1.

The Olive Leaf.[30 T.J.]

"One final deluge to surprise the Ark
Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top:
Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo,
Back with the olive in her bill for news
Sorrow was over?"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings[22 S.A.], [237 L.J.]

"He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."

--Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1.

The Pale Horse.[470 S.A.]

"Behind her Death,
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse."

--Milton, Paradise Lost.

Parting of the Waters[184 H.T.]

"All things are fitly cared for and the Lord
Will watch as kindly o'er the exodus
Of us his servants now, as in old time.
We have no cloud or fire, and haply we
May not pass dry-shod through the ocean stream;
But, saved or lost, all things are in his hand."

--Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain.

Peace, be Still.[136 L.J.]

"There are prayers that will plead with the
storm when it raves, And whisper 'Be still!' to
the turbulent waves."

--Holmes, Farewell.

The Peacemakers.[105 L.J.]

"I perceived
Near me as 'twere the waving of a wing,
That fanned my face, and whispered: 'Blessed they,
The peace-makers: they know not evil wrath."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

Pentecost.[325 L.J.]

"Hereafter thou, fulfilling Pentecost
Must learn to speak the tongues of all the world."

--Tennyson, Sir John Oldcastle.

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Peter's Denial.[270 L.J.]

"Treble denial of the tongue of flesh
Like Peter's when he fell."

--Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 1.

Peter's Sheet.[354 L.J.]

"White as the great white sheet that Peter saw in his vision,
By the four corners let down and descending out of the heavens."

--Longfellow, Elizabeth.

Pharaoh's Kine[104 H.T.]

"If to be fat be to be hated then
Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:3.

Picking up the Fragments.[147 L.J.]

"The immigrants that come to us ought to have
plenty of bread to eat and enough fragments left
over to be worth picking up, for while in the
bread is the living, in the fragments is the
life. To them America means economic fragments."

--Edward A. Steiner.

Pillar of Salt.[36 H.T.]

"One looks close for the glance forward in the
eyes, which distinguishes such pillars from
the pillars, not of flesh, but of salt, whose
eyes are set backwards."

--Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia.

The Poor Ye Have Always with You.[230 L.J.]

"Yet Thy poor endure,
And are with us yet."

--Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones.

Possess the Land[244 H.T.], [278 H.T.]

"There is a loud call for courageous idealists
and brave fighters to stand forth and summon
other men to go forward and possess the land of
a better social order. The giants of greed and
the walls of difficulty cannot be allowed to
shut us out nor to frighten us away."

--Charles Reynolds Brown.

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The Potter's Clay[301 S.A.]

"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps
Of doubt and horror,--what to say
Or think,--this awful secret sway,
The potter's power over the clay!
Of the same lump (it has been said).
For honour and dishonour made,
Two sister vessels."

--Rossetti, Jenny.

The Precious Ointment[230 L.J.], [169 L.J.]

"One Mary bathes the blessed feet
With ointment from her eyes,
With spikenard one, and both are sweet,
For both are sacrifice."

--Lowell, Godminster Chimes.

Prince of Peace.[278 S.A.]

"No trumpet-blast profaned
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn."

--Bryant, Christmas in 1875.

The Print of the Nails.[306 L.J.]

"Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns,
And to thy life were not denied
The wounds in the hands and feet and side."

--Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal.

The Prodigal's Portion.[203 L.J.]

"What prodigal portion have I spent that I
should stand to such penury?"

--Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1.

Prodigal Son.[203 L.J.]

"Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reach
The door he seeks, forgetful of his sin,
Longing to clasp him in a father's arms,
And seal his pardon with a pitying tear."

--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.

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The Promised Land[268 H.T.]

"With foretaste of the Land of Promise."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Put not Your Trust in Princes.[170 S.A.]

"O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."

--Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2.

Render unto Caesar the Things That are Caesar's.[240 L.J.]

"A kindly rendering
Of 'Render unto Caesar.'"

--Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2.

Repent Ye.[65 L.J.]

"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical
contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule,
and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous
to repentance."

--Lincoln.

Return Good for Evil.[416 S.A.]

"With a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids do good for evil."

--Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3.

The Scarlet Thread in the Window[282 H.T.]

"No Rahab thread,
For blushing token of the spy's success."

--Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country.

A Serpent in Eden.[19 T.J.]

"We are our own devils;
we drive ourselves out of our Edens."

--Goethe.

Shake Off the Dust That is under Your Feet.[143 L.J.]

"So from my feet the dust
Of the proud World I shook."

--Lowell, The Search.

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The Sheep and the Goats.[246 L.J.]

"Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand,
and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever
'twixt that darkness and that light."

--Lowell, The Present Crisis.

The Silver Cord.[246 S.A.]

"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?
Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")
Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

Slaughter of the Innocents.[45 L.J.]

"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."

--Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3.

Smite the Rock[247 H.T.]

"That God would move
And strike the hard, hard rock, and thence
Sweet in their utmost bitterness,
Would issue tears of penitence."

--Tennyson, Supposed Confessions.

The Snare of the Fowler.[106 S.A.]

"Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;
But in the sight of one whose plumes are full,
In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

Son of Man.[246 L.J.]

"That claimest with a cunning face
Those rights the true, true Son of man doth own
By Love's authority."

--Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance.

Sparks Which Fly Upward.[186 S.A.]

"But the troubles which he is born to are as
sparks which fly upward, not as flames burning
to the nethermost Hell."

--Ruskin, Notes.

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Star of Bethlehem.[41 L.J.]

"Some astronomers believe that they have found
the great star around which the whole universe
of stars revolves: whether that be true or not,
it is undoubtedly true that the Star of
Bethlehem is the center of this world's
spiritual astronomy."

--Theodore L. Cuyler.

The Stars Fought in Their Courses.[58 T.J.]

"Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the stars
Fought in their courses for a fate to be."

--Browning, The Ring and the Book.

A Still Small Voice.[124 T.J.]

"A still small voice spake unto me."

--Tennyson, The Two Voices.

The Stirring of the Waters.[167 L.J.]

"To-day a golden pinion stirred
The world's Bethesda pool,
And I believed the song I heard
Nor put my heart to school;
And through the rainbows of the dream
I saw the gates of Eden gleam."

--Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower.

The Stone Rolled Away.[297 L.J.]

"Pitiless walls of gray,
Gathered around us, a growing tomb
From which it seemed not death or doom
Could roll the stone away."

--Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island.

Tables of Stone[207 H.T.], [212 H.T.]

"Heard the voice
Of him who met the Highest in the mount,
And brought them tables, graven with His hand."

--Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts.

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The Talent Hid in the Earth.[245 L.J.]

"When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide."

--Milton, Sonnet to His Blindness.

Temperate in All Things.[438 S.A.]

"'Tis to thy rules, O Temperance, that we owe
All pleasures that from health and strength can flow;
Vigor of body, purity of mind,
Unclouded reason, sentiment refined."

--Chandler.

There the Wicked Cease from Troubling and the Weary are at Rest.[184 S.A.]

"To lie within the light of God,
as I lie upon your breast--
And the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest."

--Tennyson, The May Queen.

Threescore Years and Ten.[104 S.A.]

"Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten."

--Browning The Ring and the Book.

To Eat Husks.[203 L.J.]

"You would think that I had a hundred and fifty
tattered prodigals lately come from swine
keeping, from eating draft and husks."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 4:2.

To Everything There is a Season.[243 S.A.]

"There is a time for all things."

--Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors 2:2.

To Touch His Garments.[140 L.J.]

"The world sits at the feet of Christ,
Unknowing, blind and unconsoled.
It yet shall touch his garment's fold
And feel the heavenly alchemist
Transform its very dust to gold."

--Anonymous.

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Treading the Winepress.[476 S.A.]

"But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunk
from my rod, And how red is the winepress
wherein at my bidding they trod."

--The Paradox.

The Tree of Knowledge.[19 T.J.]

"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose Mortal taste
Brought death into the World and all our woe
. . .
Sing Heavenly Muse."

--Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I.

Truth Endureth Forever.[139 S.A.]

"It fortifies my soul to know
That, though I perish, Truth is so:
That, howsoe'er I stray and range,
Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall
That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall."

--Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia.

The Unknown God.[407 L.J.]

"Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any god
Before whose feet men knelt unshod
Deem that in this unblest abode
Another scarce more unknown god
Should house with him, from Nineveh?"

--Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh.

Unto Seventy Times Seven.[186 L.J.]

"We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive,
Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten."

--Holmes, Manhood.

The Valley of the Shadow.[35 S.A.]

"Drew to the valley
Named of the shadow."

--Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam.

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Vine and Fig Tree[456 H.T.], [369 S.A.]

"You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abraham
was any day, and as carefully visited by angels,
sitting under their vine and fig tree."

--Ruskin, Notes.

Voice Crying in the Wilderness.[65 L.J.]

"In this bleak wilderness I hear
A John the Baptist crying."

--Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish.

Walking on the Waters.[148 L.J.]

"So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high
Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves."

--Milton, Lycidas, line 172.

The Water of Life.[508 L.J.]

"The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the well
Whereof the woman of Samaria craved."

--Dante, Divine Comedy.

Weaver's Beam.[386 H.T.]

"Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam."

--Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive.

Weighed in the Balance.[206 T.J.]

"Their errors have been weighed and found to
have been dust in the balance."

--Shelley, A Defence of Poetry.

We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told.[104 S.A.]

"Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old."

--Alfred Noyes, Unity.

What is Man That Thou art Mindful of Him?[22 S.A.]

"A man is but a little thing among the objects
of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating
from his countenance, he may abolish all
considerations of magnitude, and in his manners
equal the majesty of the world."

--Emerson, Essay on Manners.

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When the Morning Stars Sang Together.[222 S.A.]

"Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings."

--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1.

The Wind Fulfills His Word.[173 S.A.]

"The snow, the vapour and the stormy wind
fulfill his word."

--Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture.

Wisdom, Crying in the Streets.[249 S.A.]

"Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it."

--Shakespeare, I Henry IV 1:2.

Wisdom shall Die with You.[194 S.A.]

"A man of superior sagacity may be pardoned for
thinking with the friends of Job, that Wisdom
will die with him."

--Ruskin.

Wrestling Jacob.[80 H.T.]

"Like that strange angel which of old,
Until the breaking of the light
Wrestled with wandering Israel."

--Tennyson, To--.

Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon.[205 L.J.]

"We mean by war all that war ever meant,
Destruction's ministers, Death's freemen, Lust's
Exponents, daily like a blood-red dawn
In flames and crimson seas we shall advance
Against the ancient immaterial reign
Of Spirit, and our watchword shall be still,
Get thee behind me, God,--I follow Mammon."

--John Davidson, Mammon and His Message.

Yoke of Bondage.[507 H.T.]

"Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon
and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our
kings . . . from the remnant that dwells in Judea
under the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptre
shall arise."

--Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man.

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Zeal That Consumes.[151 S.A.]

"The zeal for truth and righteousness and
goodness anywhere, in politics, or in
literature, or in education, does not seize hold
of men with the vigor which may be described, in
the Bible phrase, as a zeal that eats one up."

--Samuel Valentine Cole.

Zion[470 H.T.]

"Why should we fly? Nay, why not rather stay
And rear again our Zion's crumbled walls."

--Lowell, A Glance behind the Curtain.

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