Capitolo 26
as we reach the last page, you find that with ropes of a man, with ribbons of
with love, he who were Pleiades and Arcturus and his/her children, you/he/she has united them
in the eternal friendship with theirs one beloved and past, through the faith in
Christ. This, while it is sanctifying the rest of the life with the rich one,
the beauty sweetened of the leaf of change and mature wheat, and shortening
days, laying the foundation of that perfect happiness for that our houses
he intends that I/you/he/she prepare us,; their joys alluring, their separations
sharpening, us to sky.
II.
THE FEAR OF DEATH ASSUAGED.
Yea, and besides this full good knows me:
Him that is afraid to some duration to die
It is in weak case, and (the whatsoe'er him the saith)
Hath but an oscillating and a weak faith.
GEORGE WITHER.
Unless we know the customs of the wandering shepherds with their flocks,
a toward in the twenty-third Psalm, so often he/she quoted in perspective of death,
it appears sudden, but otherwise proper and very beautiful. One of a
flock is expressing its trust in God, its Shepherd: "When I have
satisfied my hunger by the green pastures, he does me to lie down in
them; and he/she anchors him, clear brooks are my drink." It happens then a thought
what it appears as if a dying man was speaking, and not a sheep: but
still it is the language of a sheep. Remembering this, allows him to be
he/she remembered that the shepherds wandered from place to put to find
pasture. In to do so, they was sometimes forced for passing through the dark,
solitary valleys. Wild beasts and creatures less formidable, but of
hateful sight, and with sorry bawls, it constituted him/it difficult the flocks
to be conducted through such passages. There frequently was not other way from
a pasture to another but through these places of the death-shade, or
valleys of the shade of death,--what a term they were to express some dark
and dark place.
I/you/he/she now allow us to imagine a reposing of the flock in a green pasture, and from the side