While reflecting on his dual nature in chapter 10, Jekyll alludes to the Biblical cities of refuge, “… Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.” The cities of refuge are found in NUMBERS 35:1-34, […]
The Writing on the Wall
As Jekyll describes a particular incident in his experience with Hyde in chapter 10, he says it seemed “like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment,” which will sound familiar to those who have read DANIEL 5 : 1-31…
Captives of Philippi
Speaking of the drug that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll says in chapter 10 that it, “shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.” Stevenson had obviously read ACTS 16 : 16-33. That Biblical passage confirms that while in Philippi, Paul cast a demon out of a female slave.
Cain
Within the first chapter of the novel, the narrator, says of himself, “I incline to Cain’s heresy…I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.” What the Bible has to say about Cain can be found in GENESIS 4 : 1-26…