Religion
Matthew 26:50: So gentle toward my basest foe
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Religion
So gentle toward my basest foe
O might I always be,
A like return with Jesus show
To hellish treachery!
O might I keep His patient word,
His temper to the end.
Taught by the meekness of my Lord,
Who call'd the traitor Friend!
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