The Blood Covenant; a Primitive Rite And Its Bearing On Scripture
The Blood Covenant; a Primitive Rite And Its Bearing On Scripture
H Clay Henry Clay Trumbull
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Let me, bleeding as thou bleedest. ELSIE'S OFFERING. ng Die, if dying I may give Life to one who asks to live. And more nearly, Dying thus, resemble thee !' " Her father, Gottlieb, consents to her Hfe-surrender, saying to the Prince : " 'As Abraham offered, long ago. His son unto the Lord, and even The Everlasting Father in heaven Gave his, as a lamb unto the slaughter, So do I offer up my daughter.' " And Elsie adds : " ' My life is little, Only a cup of water, But pure and limpid. Take it, O ...Prince ! Let it refresh you. Let it restore you. It is given willingly It is given freely ; May God bless the gift !'" The proffered sacrifice is interfered with before its con- summation ; but its purposed method shows the esti- mate which was put, from of old, on voluntarily yielded life for life. There is said to be an Eastern legend somewhat like the story of Amys and Amylion ; with a touch of the ancient Egyptian and Mexican legends already cited. " The Arabian chronicler speaks of a king, I20 THE BLOOD COVENANT.
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