ADORATION.
——All the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.—1 Kings xix. 18.
[See also Hosea xiii. 2.]
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.—Luke vii. 38.
TREACHERY.
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master; and kissed him.—Matt. xxvi. 48, 49.
The kisses of an enemy are deceitful.—Prov. xxvii. 6.
[See also Prov. vii. 13.]