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Melissa Sc*****r
Intro 2 poetry
Poem Luke 11 by Richard Crashaw
Blessed be the paps which thou hast sucked.
Suppose he had been tabled at thy teats,
Thy hunger feels not what He eats;
He'll have his teat ere long (a bloody one),
The Mother then must suck the Son.
Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649)
Luke 11:27 (King James Version)
27And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke 11 (New Living Translation)
Jesus and the Prince of Demons
14 One day Jesus cast out a demon from a man who couldn’t speak, and when the demon was gone, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed, 15 but some of them said, “No wonder he can cast out demons. He gets his power from Satan,[f] the prince of demons.” 16 Others, trying to test Jesus, demanded that he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority.
17 He knew their thoughts, so he said, “Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A family splintered by feuding will fall apart. 18 You say I am empowered by Satan. But if Satan is divided and fighting against himself, how can his kingdom survive? 19 And if I am empowered by Satan, what about your own exorcists? They cast out demons, too, so they will condemn you for what you have said. 20 But if I am casting out demons by the power of God,[g] then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you. 21 For when a strong man like Satan is fully armed and guards his palace, his possessions are safe-22 until someone even stronger attacks and overpowers him, strips him of his weapons, and carries off his belongings.
23 “Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.
24 “When an evil[h] spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ 25 So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order. 26 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.”
27 As he was speaking, a woman in the crowd called out, “God bless your mother-the womb from which you came, and the breasts that nursed you!”
28 Jesus replied, “But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.”
In Versus 27 & 28
the woman believes the mother is blessed to have given Christ life, however it is Christ who does blessing according to Jesus in the next line for even his mother must hear the word of God in order to be saved. Jesus also believes the people who hear the word are way more blessed then him.
Suppose he had been tabled at thy teats,
Thy hunger feels not what He eats;
He'll have his teat ere long (a bloody one),
The Mother then must suck the Son.
Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649)
I believe he is referring to someone that doesn't know the word of God in the 1st three lines. Suppose he had been at the table and received Christ spirit, Line 2: he feels hunger for the lord but he doesn't eat. He will believe in God and he will be filled with the Lords spirit. For even the Mother must be saved (know God) though Christ the son.