The History of the World - Past, Present, Future

The Church of Sardis, Part II

Literary Renaissance Led By Shakespeare

Psalm 119:99 I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies words are my meditation {literally “what I hum”}.

Matthew 5:14  You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden

Genesis 9:27 May God enlarge Japheth upon the earth

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

Hamlet  V.ii

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart

from your Father.

Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure. {Note: “quit” = lead to, stir up”}

Measure for Measure V.i

Matthew 7:2 For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.

 "A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it then!"

Macbeth II.ii

Matthew 27:24  When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this Man's blood; see to that yourselves."

“unweeded garden; “things rank and gross in nature

Hamlet I.ii.

Genesis 3:17-18 Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

Hamlet I. iv

“ ...biblical phrases and images as "an echo-chamber of the imagination” Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare – The Biography, 2005

“A lifetime of acquaintance with the Bible provided rhythms and phrases for Shakespeare in accordance with laws of association too subtle for description” William Rouse, Shakespeare: A Biography, 1963

2 Timothy 4:13 When you come bring the cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments.

Acts 17:28 In Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said

Titus 1:12 One of themselves {i.e., Cretans}, a prophet of their own {i/e. Aratus}, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

Luke 16:8 The sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.