MURDER.
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Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder.—Matthew, xix. 18.
Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.—I. John, iii. 15.
The great King of kings Hath in the table of His law commanded That thou shalt do no murder; wilt thou then Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man’s? Shakspere.
Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood mounts upwards. John Webster.
Silently, swift as the lightning’s blast, A hand of fire across his temples passed; He ran, as in the terror of a dream, To quench his burning anguish in the stream; But, bending o’er the brink, the swelling wave Back to his eye the branded visage gave; As soon on murdered Abel durst he look: Yet power to fly his palsied limbs forsook; There turned to stone, for his presumptuous crime, A monument of wrath to latest time, Might Cain have stood; but mercy raised his head In prayer for help,—his strength returned, he fled. James Montgomery.
The murderer has no past But one eternal present. T. N. Talfourd.
He told how murderers walked the earth Beneath the curse of Cain; With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain: For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! Thomas Hood.
Lo, on the everlasting stone engraved, “No murder shalt thou do.” From God to man The solemn law came down: by specious gloss Of subtle learning, seek not to evade The great command. Samuel Hayes.