United States or Samoa ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was the direct result of the searchings of heart and the communings for seven years, from 1826 to 1833, of the three men who have been the subject of this chapter. Rem. i. 232, 233. In 1828, Newman had preferred Hawkins to Keble, for Provost. Apol. p. 84. Remains, i. 438; Apol. p. 77. "Do you know the story of the murderer who had done one good thing in his life?
When he was come up to Christian, he beheld him with a disdainful countenance, and thus began to question with him. Apol. Whence come you? and whither are you bound? Chr. I come from the City of Destruction, which is the place of all evil, and am going to the City of Zion. Apol. By this I perceive thou art one of my Subjects, for all that Country is mine, and I am the Prince and God of it.
APOL. Thou didst the same to me, and yet I am willing to pass by all, if now thou wilt yet turn again and go back.
And besides, O thou destroying Apollyon, to speak truth, I like his service, his wages, his servants, his government, his company, and country, better than thine; therefore leave off to persuade me further; I am his servant, and I will follow him. Apol. Consider again, when thou art in cool blood, what thou art like to meet with in the way that thou goest.
Aha! you are caught! you will not come to the scratch. Zeus. Speak, my son, in spite of all; give not this enemy occasion to blaspheme; let him not flout thy powers with tripod and water and frankincense, as though thine art were lost without them. Apol. Father, it were better done at Delphi or at Colophon, with all the customary instruments to hand.
Apol There is no Prince that will thus lightly lose his Subjects, neither will I as yet lose thee: but since thou complainest of thy service and wages, be content to go back; what our Country will afford, I do here promise to give thee. Chr. But I have let myself to another, even to the King of Princes, and how can I with fairness go back with thee? Apol.
Thou hast already been unfaithful in thy service to him, and how dost thou think to receive wages of him? Chr. Wherein, O Apollyon, have I been unfaithful to him? Apol.
But, reverend sir, you claim the gift of prophecy, and it has brought you in good pay golden ingots on one occasion? why not seize this opportunity of exhibiting your art? You might tell us which of the disputants will win; a prophet knows the future, of course. Apol. I have no tripod or incense here; no substitute for the divining-well of Castaly. Mo.
The most remarkable instance is in Apol. i. 52, where six different passages from three separate writers are interwoven together and assigned bodily to Zechariah. There are several more examples of mistaken ascription. The great advantage of collecting the quotations from the Old Testament is that we are enabled to do so in regard to the very same writers among whom our enquiry is to lie.
APOL. Thou hast done in this according to the proverb, "Changed a bad for a worse"; but it is ordinary for those that have professed themselves His servants, after a while to give Him the slip, and return again to me. Do thou so too, and all shall be well. CHR. I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
Word Of The Day