Religion
Mark 15:10: Envy, when time began
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Religion
Envy, when time began,
The death of Jesus was,
From earth's foundations slain
It nail'd Him to the cross:
Through envious pride the fiend came in.
And death with the malicious sin.
A murderer from the first
In Cain the devil stood:
And still the wicked thirst
To shed their brethren's blood,
And daily by the priestly vice
The Saviour in His members dies.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 15:10: Envy, when time began.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4958/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 15:10: Envy, when time began.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4958/.
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