1869
Part 8
1869.194.441) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The timbers used in the construction of Solomon’s Temple were floated to Jaffa in rafts, and the narrow opening in the reef through which they passed to the shore is not an inch wider or a shade less dangerous to navigate than it was then.
Scripture: And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, ... Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. ... My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. -- 1 Kings 5:1,2,6,9,10
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVI(56); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.195.442) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes.
Scripture: O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. -- Jeremiah 6:26
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVI(56); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.196.443-446) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor of the Saviour’s presence; the hallowed spot where the shepherds watched their flocks by night, and where the angels sang Peace on earth, good will to men, is untenanted by any living creature, and unblessed by any feature that is pleasant to the eye.
Scripture: Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. -- Joshua 1:1,2
Scripture: So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. -- Joshua 6:20
Scripture: And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him. -- Mark 11:1,2
Scripture: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. -- Luke 2:14
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVI(56); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.197.447-449) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village; the riches of Solomon are no longer there to compel the admiration of visiting Oriental queens; the wonderful temple which was the pride and the glory of Israel, is gone, and the Ottoman crescent is lifted above the spot where, on that most memorable day in the annals of the world, they reared the Holy Cross. The noted Sea of Galilee, where Roman fleets once rode at anchor and the disciples of the Saviour sailed in their ships, was long ago deserted by the devotees of war and commerce, and its borders are a silent wilderness; Capernaum is a shapeless ruin; Magdala is the home of beggared Arabs; Bethsaida and Chorazin have vanished from the earth, and the “desert places” round about them where thousands of men once listened to the Saviour’s voice and ate the miraculous bread, sleep in the hush of a solitude that is inhabited only by birds of prey and skulking foxes.
Scripture: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, -- 1 Kings 10:14
Scripture: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing [their] nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. -- Luke 5:1-3 [“Lake Gennesaret” was another name for the Sea of Galilee]
Scripture: And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. -- Luke 9:10,11
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVI(56); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.198.450,451) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: On the same island is still shown the spot where Pharaoh’s daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents.
Scripture: And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. -- Exodus 2:1-3
Scripture: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. -- Matthew 2:13-16
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVIII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.199.452-456) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Why try to call up the traditions of vanished Egyptian grandeur; why try to fancy Egypt following dead Rameses to his tomb in the Pyramid, or the long multitude of Israel departing over the desert yonder?
Scripture: And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. -- Exodus 5:1,2
Scripture: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. -- Exodus 7:5
Scripture: And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. -- Exodus 12:51
Scripture: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. -- Exodus 13:18
Scripture: And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians. And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. -- Exodus 14:19-29
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVIII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.200.457) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. And there is that in the overshadowing majesty of this eternal figure of stone, with its accusing memory of the deeds of all ages, which reveals to one something of what he shall feel when he shall stand at last in the awful presence of God.
Scripture: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. -- Revelation 20:11-15
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVIII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.201.458) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I shall not tell about Joseph’s granaries which he built to store the grain in, what time the Egyptian brokers were “selling short,” unwitting that there would be no corn in all the land when it should be time for them to deliver;
Scripture: Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. … And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number. -- Genesis 41:33-41,46-49
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVIII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.202.459) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: We were glad to have seen that land which had glass three thousand years before England had it, and could paint upon it as none of us can paint now; that land which knew, three thousand years ago, well nigh all of medicine and surgery which science has discovered lately; which had all those curious surgical instruments which science has invented recently; which had in high excellence a thousand luxuries and necessities of an advanced civilization which we have gradually contrived and accumulated in modern times and claimed as things that were new under the sun;
Scripture: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVIII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.203.460) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: ...that old land that knew all which we know now, perchance, and more; that walked in the broad highway of civilization in the gray dawn of creation, ages and ages before we were born; that left the impress of exalted, cultivated Mind upon the eternal front of the Sphynx to confound all scoffers who, when all her other proofs had passed away, might seek to persuade the world that imperial Egypt, in the days of her high renown, had groped in darkness.
Scripture: They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. -- Job 12:25
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LVII(58); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.204.461) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: We prowled through the Holy Land, from Cesarea Philippi to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, a weird procession of pilgrims, gotten up regardless of expense, solemn, gorgeous, green-spectacled, drowsing under blue umbrellas, and astride of a sorrier lot of horses, camels and asses than those that came out of Noah’s ark, after eleven months of seasickness and short rations.
Scripture: And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. -- Genesis 7:1
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LXI(61); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.205.462) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: ...we meditated at Jezreel and Samaria over the missionary zeal of Jehu;
Scripture: So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace? So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again. Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah. And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him; Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the Lord. -- 2 Kings 9:16-26
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, chapter LXI(61); 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.206.463) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: And I will say, here, that I would rather travel with an excursion party of Methuselahs than have to be changing ships and comrades constantly, as people do who travel in the ordinary way.
Scripture: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. -- Genesis 5:27
Work; Date: The Innocents Abroad, Conclusion; 1869
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
1869.207.464) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: ...he could teach false doctrines to empty Opera Houses, and those sorrowing lambs of the Ministerial Union had to get out their sackcloth and ashes and stand responsible for it.
Scripture: O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. -- Jeremiah 6:26
Work; Date: Mr. Beecher and the Clergy; April 10, 1869 [Twain signed this article “S’cat”]
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1869.208.465) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: He felt warranted in this course by a passage of Scripture which says: ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel unto every creature.’ Opera Houses were not ruled out specifically in this passage, and so he considered it proper to regard Opera Houses as a part of ‘all the world.’
Scripture: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. -- Mark 16:15
Work; Date: Mr. Beecher and the Clergy; April 10, 1869
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1869.209.466) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: For instance, the interpolating of the word white in State Constitutions existing under a great general Constitution which declares all men to be equal, is neatly touched by a recommendation that the Scriptures be so altered, at the same time, as to make them pleasantly conform to men’s notions -- thus: “Suffer little white children to come unto me, and forbid them not!”
Scripture: But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. -- Mark 10:14
Work; Date: Nasby; July, 1869
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/18690725.html
1869.210.467) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Some archangel, cast out of upper Heaven like another Satan, …
Scripture: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. -- Revelation 12:9
Work; Date: Blind Tom; July, 1869
Source: http://www.twainquotes.com/18690801.html
1869.211.468,469) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: What he meant to say, was, ‘Adam was the first, and Adams is the last of earth,’ but he put it off a trifle too long, and so he had to go with that unmeaning observation on his lips.
Scripture: And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. -- Genesis 2:18,19
Scripture: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; -- Acts 17:26
Work; Date: The Last Words of Great Men; September 11, 1869
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1869.212.470) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: This 4th of Februry will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives, the holiest, & the most generous toward us both--for it makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, & doubles the strength of each whereby to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, & something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, a new mystery to life; & Livy it will give a new revelation to love, a new depth to sorrow, a new impulse to worship In that day the scales will fall from our eyes & we shall look upon a new world. Speed it!
Scripture: And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. -- Acts 9:17,18
Work; Date: Letter to Olivia Langdon; September 8, 1869
Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=yigfUdvWfkYC&pg=PA348&lpg=PA348&dq=mark+twain+scales+fall+from+our+eyes