Milton: Yea, Truth and Justice then

Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Meditation:
Love and faithfulness meet together;
    righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
    and righteousness looks down from heaven.
    —Psalm 85:10-11 (NIV)
Quotation:
Yea, Truth and Justice then
Will down return to men,
    Orb’d in a Rain-bow, and like glories wearing;
Mercy will sit between,
Throned in celestial sheen,
    With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering;
And Heav’n, as at some festival,
Will open wide the Gates of her high Palace Hall.
    ... John Milton (1608-1674), [1629] from On the morning of Chist’s Nativity, The Complete Poems of John Milton, New York: P. F. Collier, 1909, p. 12 (see the book)
    See also Ps. 85:10-11; 33:5; 40:11; 89:14; Pr. 8:20; Zech. 7:9; 2 John 1:3; Rev. 15:2-3; 19:11; 21:2,25
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have opened Heaven to Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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