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Excerpt
Many people today have imagined the kind of Men and Women that followed Jesus.
Unfortunately in today’s society of modern education we have seen to many Renaissance
paintings depicting our Lord and his 12 in an almost feminine way. Nothing could be
farther from the truth. These were men who lived and worked outside. They were rough,
tough fisherman, carpenters, and herdsman. Even being a tax collector and a priest was
not a task for the faint of heart in those days with the Romans watching your every move.
The early 20th century Poet Ezra Pound puts it far better than I in his poem, “The Ballad
of the Goodly Fere” and here it is supposedly from the mouth of Simon Ben Alpheus,
after the crucifixion.
Simon Ben Alpheus, Apostle, speaking after the Crucifixion.
Fere=Mate, Companion.
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O' ships and the open sea.
When they came wi' a host to take Our Man
His smile was good to see,
"First let these go!" quo' our Goodly Fere,
"Or I'll see ye damned," says he.
Aye he sent us out through the crossed high spears
And the scorn of his laugh rang free,
"Why took ye not me when I walked about
Alone in the town?" says he.
Oh we drank his "Hale" in the good red wine
When we last made company,
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere
But a man o' men was he.
I ha' seen him drive a hundred men
Wi' a bundle o' cords swung free,
That they took the high and holy house
For their pawn and treasury.
They'll no' get him a' in a book I think
Though they write it cunningly;
No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly Fere
But aye loved the open sea.
If they think they ha' snared our Goodly Fere
They are fools to the last degree.
"I'll go to the feast," quo' our Goodly Fere,
"Though I go to the gallows tree."
"Ye ha' seen me heal the lame and blind,
And wake the dead," says he,
"Ye shall see one thing to master all:
'Tis how a brave man dies on the tree."
A Son of God was the Goodly Fere
That bade us his brothers be.
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men.
I have seen him upon the tree.
He cried no cry when they drave the nails
And the blood gushed hot and free,
The hounds of the crimson sky gave tongue
But never a cry cried he.
I ha' seen him cow a thousand men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi' his eyes like the Grey o' the sea,
Like the sea that brooks no voyaging
With the winds unleashed and free,
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret
Wi' twey words spoke' suddenly.
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea,
If they think they ha' slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
I ha' seen him eat o' the honey-comb
Sin' they nailed him to the tree.
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Reviews for "Sandals in the Dust"
Reviewed by Icaro Rosson
8/12/2010
I fully agree wit the excerpt shown above. The concept we hold now a days is distorted in many ways. The first Christians after the day of Pentecost in the book of Acts continued steadfastly in the teaching and fellowship of the Apostles (Acts 2:42). The teaching of the Apostles keeps the believers in the one living. The fellowship keeps the believers in the one life necessary for the one living. Fellowship is the communion, the flow, of the divine life through the believers.
Our Goodly Fere poem is quite correct to point out the the Lord, our saviour, is a genuine and real man. This man today is the glory objectively, but subjectively is in the regenerated believers' spirit, ruling and reining their life as far as they let Him to do so.
The author of this book ought to be congratulated for presenting such a picture of the Apostles and of Jesus, the Christ, is a way void of the distorted view held by today's society.
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