Homilist Isaiah 27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. Coriolanus was a mighty man. He is thus described by Shakespeare: "The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. When he walks he moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. He is able to pierce a corset with his eye, talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. He sits in his state as a thing made for Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a heaven to throne in." And yet his mother and wife, by appealing to the love in his nature, took hold of his strength; and hence we hear him exclaim, "Ladies, you deserve to have a temple built you. All the swords in Italy and her confederate arms could not have made this peace." (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. |
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