Gospel of St. Luke Archives - Richard M. Langworth

The Biblical Churchill, Part 2

3 May 2012 Comments 0 Comments

“A House of Many Mansions”

Continued from Part 1…

The New Testament Gospel according to St. John, Chapter 14, contains an inspiring passage that the young Winston must have read and re-read as a boy:

1. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2. In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4.…

The Biblical Churchill, Part 1

2 May 2012 Comments 1 Comment

“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” —St. John 14:2[1]

“Arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness against the morning…For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary. Nevertheless, as the will of God is in heaven, so let him do.” —I Maccabees 3:58-60[2]

“More than to any other book or group of books, Churchill alludes to the King James Bible,” wrote Darrell Holley in Churchill’s Literary Allusions:

It is for him the primary source of interesting illustrations, descriptive images, and stirring phrases.…