![]() ![]() (The recollection of the frenzied mob at Jesus’s trial renders the silence and order of the tomb all the more profound.) We, on the other hand, have attempted to kill you with stones. We obviously have plenty of room the horde of sins and worldly pleasures that dwell in our hearts demonstrate that we have room.Īll those sins and worldly pleasures render our hearts unsuitable to receive Jesus. It is not for lack of room that human hearts refuse to receive Christ. Professor Orrick provides a paraphrase and some contextual notes for the poem as follows: ![]() Our hearts are as cold and hard as stone, but stone cannot prevent Christ from loving us. In his book A Year with George Herbert: A Guide to Fifty-Two of His Best Loved Poems, Jim Scott Orrick identifies the thesis of this poem as follows: Though it be cold, hard, foul, from loving man The letter of the word, find’st no fit heartĪnd so should perish, but that nothing can, Was writ in stone so thou, which also art Only these stones in quiet entertain thee, Where our hard hearts have took up stones to brain thee,Īnd missing this, most falsely did arraign thee ![]() Which holds thee now? Who hath indicted it Thousands of toys dwell there, yet out of doorīut that which shows them large, shows them unfit. Sure there is room within our hearts good store įor they can lodge transgressions by the score: No lodging for thee, but a cold hard stone? ![]()
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