Knowledge and responsibility

Watchfulness. Stripes. Division. Make peace betimes.

(The Gospel History, Section 100)

But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.

Knowledge and responsibility

(The Saviour of the World, Vol VI Book IV Poem LIII)

Think ye that knowledge is a little thing
A man may hide away in casket sure,
Certain its worth and beauty shall endure,
Nor, like a timid bird, take sudden wing?

Think ye that none against you count may bring
For that ye know, for ’tis your very own?
I tell you that your knowledge is a loan
For all men’s use; ye shall not hide, nor fling

Into the dustbin of your memory,
That knowledge ye with pains have got of Me;
Who knows and teaches not shall feel the sting

Of guilt intolerable when before
The Judge he stands: for him, hath little lore,
A lighter chastisement decrees the King.

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He that hath much must needs impart the more,
And each shall give according to his store.

St. Luke xii. 48.