This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... When unto Him they offered with strange fire. Beware, beware, I charge thee, Jephthah; know I have not borne her thee to be destroyed. What! shall the offspring by the father die?--Ay, wring thy hands, as now thou wring'st my heart; Cry out aloud, as now thou mak'st me cry. Fathers, like beasts, seek ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... When unto Him they offered with strange fire. Beware, beware, I charge thee, Jephthah; know I have not borne her thee to be destroyed. What! shall the offspring by the father die?--Ay, wring thy hands, as now thou wring'st my heart; Cry out aloud, as now thou mak'st me cry. Fathers, like beasts, seek to devour their young; Man is divested of humanity. Away, thou bloody man; begone from here, Thou false professor of parental love And care. What carest thou 1 Thou lov'st her not, Else hadst thou not forgotten that her love So strong must surely bring her first to meet thee." To which, in anguish, Jephthah answered: "Peace, Again I bid thee peace, opprobrious woman, Nor interpose loud lamentations where 'Twere best to hold a dumb, though deep, distress. Canst thou with words mete out thine agony? Then is that slight that should be infinite. To strive t'express this misery were as vain as Strive with a bucket to bail out the sea. Alas! alas! Oh, heavy, heavy fate! Neither the sea's loud roar, when it doth lift Its storm-struck billows to the scowling sky, That scourges it meantime with lashing winds, Till it, tormented, tossing boils, nor yet Thy loudest outcries and vehement shrieks, Nor all thy sex's choir of Babel tongues, Could reach the top of this high-towering grief, Whose summit soars athwart the brazen heavens, And, piercing to Jehovah's sacred seat, Pleads with him, pleads, but pleads, alas! in vain. Hence, prythee, wife, expostulate no more, Nor teach our death-doomed daughter to revile me. What I have done you are possessed of; what Endured, may never be your lot to learn. Suffice, that I have carefully revolved The law of vows, traditions, and explored The mazy walks of casuistry, which lead To nothing; leaving only more...
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