Friday, November 6, 2009

Pagan (Giant)

"PAGANISM has reduced the Creator to the level of the creature; has degraded worship to idolatry, religion to superstition, revelation to mythology, and truth to fiction. In this, man has been the chief sufferer, spoiled of his true glory, robbed of his inheritance. His better nature has deteriorated into savagery and barbarism, into cruelty and hatred, into vice and sensuality. The finer feelings of the soul have been dwarfed and stunted in their growth. Charity, sympathy, gentleness, meekness, and all moral duties, are exchanged for physical force, treachery, torture, deceit, and guile. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind,” Romans 1:28."[1]

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Sources

1. Rev. Robert Maguire, Notes. The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, c1863.
2. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.

Illlustrations

Artists:
1. Henry Courtney Selous (1803 - 1890).
2. M. Paolo Priolo.

Engravers:
1. William James Linton (1812 - 1897).
2. Léon Louis Chapon (1836 - 1918).