In chapter 31, as Jane accepts a position with St. John Rivers as a schoolmistress, he warns her not “to yield to the vacillating fears of Lot’s wife…I counsel you to resist, firmly, every temptation which would incline you to look back.” God tells us, in GENESIS 19 : 12-26…
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…
Noah
In chapter 10 of Treasure Island the claim is made that “there was never a ship’s company so spoiled since Noah put to sea.” The view that Noah was “spoiled” stands in direct contrast to the fact that he and his family were the only ones among all the Earth’s inhabitants at the time […]
Jubal
GENESIS 4 : 21 identifies Jubal as “the father of all those who play the harp and the flute” and he is often named in literature as the father of music and song. Dryden writes:
When Jubal struck the corded shell…
Light
Apart from JOHN 3, the most famous chapter of the Bible is undoubtedly GENESIS 1, which includes “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light (GENESIS 1 : 3). Pope wrote an epitaph honoring the departed Newton as well as alluding to GENESIS 1 : 3.