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'Light! cried the priest. 'His damnation be on his own head! Anathema! Maranatha! Let him die accursed! The dry fuel was fired at once at all points it was an anticipation of an 'Auto da Fe', a burning of a heretic, in the fifth century! As the flames rose, the people fell back and watched their rapid progress.
What he loved and admired was not so much the fair, frank face itself, as the lofty Cornelia-like spirit behind it. And yet, he hesitated. Could he accept the sacrifice this white soul wished to make for him? Could he aid and abet her in raising up for herself so much undeserved obloquy? Could he help her to become Anathema maranatha among her sister women?
While you may not be able to rise up to the towering excitement of the Apostle in my text, you can at any rate somewhat understand his feelings when he cried out: "After all this, 'if a man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha." Just look at the injustice of not loving Him. Now, there is nothing that excites a man like injustice.
Travilla, the Bible says, 'If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha, accursed from God. Oh! sir, think how dreadful! You cannot be saved unless you love Jesus, and believe on Him. 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. That is what God says in his word." She spoke with deep solemnity, the tears trembling in her eyes.
So, Vision having gone, culture is to go too, and all you can call civilization; and therewith law and order, and the decencies of life: all that soap stands symbol for is to be anathema maranatha; all that the Soul stands symbol for is to be anathema maranatha; a pretty prospect!
To the Turkish peasant dirt is anathema maranatha; in his own station of life he is the cleanest man in the world, and if there is any dirtier person to be found than a Bulgarian peasant, as I knew him in the war year, I can only say that I have not yet discovered him.
The first generations were all aflame with the glad hope 'Maranatha' 'The Lord is at hand. Their successors gradually lost that keenness of expectation, and at most cried, 'Will not He come soon? Their successors saw the starry hope through thickening mists of years; and now it scarcely shines for many, or at least is but a dim point, when it should blaze as a sun.
Ought you not give him freedom of choice?" Though awhile ago there was only one ardent man who understood the Apostle, now there are hundreds in the house who can say, and do say within themselves: "After all this ingratitude, and rejection, and obstinacy, 'if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha."
It is treason against a higher throne than that on which the Queen sits. It is a heresy which requires an auto-da-fe. It is a pollution to the whole House, which can only be cleansed by a great sacrifice. Anathema maranatha! out with it from amongst us, even though the half of our heart's blood be poured forth in the conflict! out with it, and for ever!
Last Shrovetide did he not drive off five of our best milch cows, and hath steadfastly refused to restore them? Anathema maranatha to his vile body and condemned be his huckstering soul!" Needless to add, every word of this comment and addition was heard by the person most concerned. Or it might be, "Henry A'milligan his mother's son, God wot.
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