Sparrows

In Act V, Scene ii, Horatio thinks it’s best to postpone the duel with Laertes.  Hamlet replies, “Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” Hamlet had been reading MATTHEW 10:27-31 where the Gospel writer records Jesus telling His Disciples to be bold in proclaiming the Truth and not to fear those who would threaten them because not even a sparrow “falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will” and that they “are of more value than many sparrows.”