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If He is going to work, we must let Him act as He pleases. Shall we dictate to the Almighty? Shall the clay say to the potter, "Why hast thou made me thus?" Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Let God work in His own way; and when the Holy Ghost comes, let Him mark out a way for Himself. We must be willing to submit, and to do what the Lord tells us, without any questioning whatever.
If the first thirty-nine chapters of this book are accepted, as the prophecies of Isaiah, by every law of fair criticism the whole book must claim this prophet as its author. "Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?" Rom. ix. 20. "At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." Deut. xix. 15.
None shall ask thee what thou doest, Or care a rush for what thou knowest. Or listen when thou repliest, Or remember where thou liest, Or how thy supper is sodden; And another is born To make the sun forgotten." Of all Emerson's poems the "Concord Hymn" is the most nearly complete and faultless, but it is not distinctively Emersonian.
As it was, however, the young convert met it unmoved, and returned it with an eye of proud defiance. 'Apaecides, said the Egyptian, in a tremulous and inward tone, 'beware! What is it thou wouldst meditate? Speakest thou reflect, pause before thou repliest from the hasty influences of wrath, as yet divining no settled purpose, or from some fixed design?
But, I repeat, that we must study the whole of the Bible with faith, and not be continually asking ourselves, `Why was this done? If you will turn to the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, you will see what the Apostle Paul says on the subject: `Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, `Why hast thou made me thus? Do you now understand in what spirit the Bible should be read?"
And these murmurings of reason, which we can no more prevent than we could stop the heavings of the mighty ocean from its depths, are met and sought to be quelled with the rebuke, “Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God?” We reply not against God, but against man’s interpretation of God’s word; and who art thou, O man, that puttest thyself in the place of God? “Men,” saith Bacon, “are ever ready to usurp the style, ‘Non ego, sed Dominus;’ and not only so, but to bind it with the thunder and denunciation of curses and anathemas, to the terror of those who have not sufficiently learned out of Solomon, that the ‘causeless curse shall not come.’ ”
"I shall scarce command mine," said the Varangian, "if thou repliest to my earnest questions with thine affected quirks of philosophy. Once more, what dost thou want with me? and why hast thou the boldness to watch me?" "I have told thee already," said the slave, "that I do my master's commands." "But I must know who thy master is," said Hereward.
"Alas! that one is born in blight, Victim of perpetual slight When thou lookest in his face Thy heart saith, 'Brother, go thy ways None shall ask thee what thou doest, Or care a rush for what thou knowest, Or listen when thou repliest, Or remember where thou liest, Or how thy supper is sodden; And another is born To make the sun forgotten." Poor fellow!
None shall ask thee what thou doest, Or care a rush for what thou knowest. Or listen when thou repliest, Or remember where thou liest, Or how thy supper is sodden; And another is born To make the sun forgotten." Of all Emerson's poems the "Concord Hymn" is the most nearly complete and faultless, but it is not distinctively Emersonian.
As to the authorities derived from Holy Scripture, Mr. Hobbes divides them into three kinds; some, he says, are for me, the second kind are neutral, and the third seem to be for my opponent. The passages which he thinks favourable to his opinion are those which ascribe to God the cause of our will. For who hath resisted his will?; v. 20: 'Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
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