Showing posts with label Shakespeare and the KJV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare and the KJV. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Bard vs. Bible -- Believe

BELIEVE

Before my God, I might not this believe
without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.
Hamlet I, 1

Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of
those things which were told her from the Lord.
Luke 1:45

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Bard vs. Bible -- Lies

William Shakespeare--who lived at the time that the KJV was translated and first published--is the next most often quoted source in English literature, after the King James Bible. This is the first in a series of, Which is better, Bard or Bible?

LIES

Doubt the equivocation of the fiend
that lies like truth.
Macbeth, V, 5

Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth.
Psalm 52:2-3