Horatio likens the ghost’s appearance to bad omens that predicated the assassination of Julius Caesar: “…the moist star / Upon whose influence Neptune’s empire stands / Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse” (I, i). The event the Bible refers to as the day of judgment (MATTHEW 10 : 15) and the judgment seat of Christ (ROMANS 14 : 10)
Empty Graves
There exists striking parallels between the imagery of EZEKIEL 37 : 12-13, MATTHEW 27 : 52-53 and Horatio’s observation (I, i) that, “A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, / The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets…” All three passages speak of graves being opened and their inhabitants coming out or being brought out.
Hypocrisy
MATTHEW 7 : 4 records Jesus confronting hypocritical hearts by asking “…how wilt thou say to thy brother, ‘Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye’; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?” The “mote” of Elizabethan English is a speck or a small particle of something. Shakespeare employs the word and the allusion…