With God in Solitary Confinement by Richard Wurmbrand

Author:Richard Wurmbrand
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, General
ISBN: 9780882640778
Publisher: Living Sacrifice Book Company
Published: 1979-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Victims of My Life

SO HERE YOU ARE AGAIN, the victims of my life. Good evening! I know nothing that cleanses the soul so well as a straight face-to-face discussion with you.

I believe that truth is to be found not only in the Bible. I believe that I can rely on a book of arithmetic in its own sphere as much as on the Bible. I also believe in Shakespeare. As the Scriptures teach you the maximum that a man can know about God, so Shakespeare teaches you the most a man can know about human character. Romeo and Juliet can even be seen as an allegory of the love between the Savior and His bride, just as we find an allegory in the Song of Solomon and the Hindus in the Bhagavad Gita.

There are only two things I wonder about Shakespeare. First, why does he not describe Christian characters? Secondly, I wonder whether the apparition of the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and the presence of the murdered Banquo at Macbeth’s table, represent fiction or reality. I have always been rather inclined to consider them as a description of reality.

In the Nazi prison I was with a murderer who denied his crime. The prosecutor put him in a solitary cell whose walls were covered with dozens of pictures of the victim. The killer pounded on the door of his cell, confessing everything and demanding only that the pictures should be removed. What was for us only a picture evoked for him a reality that was with him in the cell. Now I am passing through the same experience. Night after night, you come. But I don’t bang on the door. I do not wish to es- cape from your reproaches. Do not try to terrify me by circling around me in this mad dance and pointing at me with your skeleton fingers.

I know how to dance, too. And you know that my dance is more effective than yours, just as the miracles of Moses were greater than those of the Egyptian magicians who opposed him.

You dance? I will dance too, singing the song Jesus sang when He danced. Ha, ha, ha. You don’t even know that He danced? Listen to the words of incantation while I dance—words I learned from Him:

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