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To sit in the scorner's seat, here called 'the chair of pestilence. This is from the vulgate Latin, which renders it pestilentiae. Ed.
It is at once instruction for the young, and for the older folk a cast back into the days that were. If to any it is a mockery or a scorning, so much the worse for of them who sit in the scorner's chair the doom is written. Winsome and Ralph walked on into the eye of the day, hand in hand, as was their wont.
To such only the day of grace is past; they have set themselves in the scorner's seat, from which they will be hurled into unutterable wretchedness. Bunyan well knew that idleness engenders poverty and crime, and is the parent of every evil; and he exhorts his runner to the greatest diligence, not to 'fool away his soul' in slothfulness, which induces carelessness, until the sinner is remediless.
He is a Bohemian ever a popular type of hero; and the Bohemian is to be known all the world over by the pipe, which he prefers to a cigar. The tall, scornful gentleman who leans lazily against the door, "blowing great clouds of smoke into the air," is the hero of a hundred novels. He is young. By and by he will open out and gather her up in his arms. The scorner's chair is filled.
As for the Essay on Man, one can read! it more than once only out of a sense of duty. Pope has nothing to tell us that we want to know about man except in so far as he dislikes him. We praise him as the poet who makes remarks as the poet, one might almost say, who makes faces. It is when he sits in the scorner's chair, whether in good humour or in bad, that he is the little lord of versifiers.
The rumor came in different voices, some piously meant to shake him with fear in the scorner's seat which he held so stubbornly; some in their doubt seeking the help of his powerful unfaith; but he required their news from them all with the same mocking.
"Not for a moment take the scorner's chair; While seated there, thou know'st not how a word, A tone, a look, may gall thy brother's heart, And make him turn in bitterness against thee." The day arrived on which the masters were to have an interview with a deputation of the workpeople.
"'That man hath perfect blessedness Who walketh not astray In counsel of ungodly men, Nor stands in sinners' way, Nor sitteth in the scorner's chair: But placeth his delight Upon God's law, and meditates On his law day and night." The child caught her breath with a long sigh, and hurried on to the end.
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