In chapter three, Jane thinks “Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did…” There is no doubt that Charlotte Bronte was recalling LUKE 23 : 34, which records that “Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Jesus spoke of the Romans and Jews…
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.
Redemption of a Battered Heart
This sonnet is among Donne’s best known works. The praying speaker invites God to “batter” his heart. This seems an odd request, but the speaker acknowledges that in order to be made “new” God must “break, blow, burn” him, a reference to MALACHI 3 : 2-3, where God is a refiner of precious metals, in control of the fire that shapes the lives of believers.
Wolves
During His famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warns, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves” (MATTHEW 7 : 15). Act III, Scene ii finds Juliet describing her nurse as a “wolvish-ravening lamb,” among other things, when the nurse tells Juliet of Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment.
The Beginning
Chaucer describes the Friar as: “…the beste beggere in his hous; / For though a widewe hadde noght a sho, / So plesaunt was his In principio / Yet wolde he have a ferthing er he wente…” Medieval friars commonly repeated In principio erat verbum during their travels about the countryside which means “In the […]