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It turns round three petitions, to each of which the Lord answers. I. We have the leader's prayer for himself, with the over-abundant answer of God. In the former chapter, we had the very sublimity of intercession, in which the stern avenger of idolatry poured out his self-sacrificing love for the stiff-necked nation whom he had had to smite, and offered himself a victim for them.
In 1659 Sam Clarke, for "Hankering about on men's gates on Sabbath evening to draw company out to him," was reproved and warned not to "harden his neck" and be "wholly destrojed." Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents. Perhaps he "hankered" after the Puritan maids, and if so, deserved his reproof and the threat of annihilation.
It was cut into a bloodstone, and showed a stag's head, surmounted by five pointed rays, like a crown of daggers. "I cannot decipher the motto," he said; "what is it?" "Fortis et audax." "Hum! 'Strong and bold. A stiff-necked legend, too." He reached to his bookcase for Burke's "General Armoury." After a brief search, he asked: "Do you know anything about heraldry?" "Nothing whatever."
"But we cannot be so long away from the mother both of us," said Moses. "She, too, is ill. And how will the children do without thee? I will go by myself." "No, I must see Benjy!" Esther cried. "Be not so stiff-necked, Esther! Besides, it stands in the letter that I am to come they do not ask thee. Who knows that the great people will not be angry if I bring thee with me?
This stiff-necked answer showed clearly that the writer was still on von Kerber's side, no matter what revelations were contained in the letter from London which Royson knew of. Irene copied the note for her grandfather. She made no comment. Perhaps her own island blood was a- boil at the cavalier tone of the Governor's threat. Stump's letter was characteristic. It ran: S. Y. Aphrodite,
From time to time she expressed her opinion that Brotherton would get well and would come back; and she would then tell Mary how she ought to urge her husband to behave well to his elder brother, always asserting that George had been stiff-necked and perverse.
The boy has a real dignity; not the stiff-necked kind he'd acquire around an army post, but the dignity that comes with the consciousness of being, not in the service, but of service." He fell silent there, and Katie watched him.
It is not necessary to feed on ambrosia in order to become divine; nor shall one be accursed, though he drink of the ninefold Styx. The Israelites ate angels' food in the wilderness, and remained stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. The white water-lily feeds on slime, and unfolds a heavenly glory. Come as the June morning comes.
The youngsters grew excited, the cheeks of the disputants began to flush, here and there clenched fists were raised, and everything indicated that a horrible civil war would precede the battle to be given the foes of the country. In truth, these lively boys were ill-suited to play the part of King Philip's gloomy, stiff-necked soldiers.
Whereon he tied a great sack to the ship's head, and cut the bottom out, and made every one of those monks get into that sack and so fall through into the sea; whereby he rid the monks of Ely of their rivals." "Pish! why tell me such an old-wives' fable, knight?" "Because the monks believe that old-wives' fable, and are stout-hearted and stiff-necked accordingly."
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