Of Paradise' existence
All we know
Is the uncertain certainty-
But its vicinity infer,
By its Bisecting
Messenger-
All we know
Is the uncertain certainty-
But its vicinity infer,
By its Bisecting
Messenger-
(F.1421/J.1411)
[1] Paradise:: a churchyard or cemetery; Heaven.
[2] All we know:: to see this issue logically.
[3] certainty:: that man will die is certain, hinted by churchyard. uncertain:: if man will to Heaven after death is uncertain, a logical view.
[4] vicinity:: a church, the vicinity of a churchyard.
[5] infer:: to infer from sermons about Heaven.
[5-6] Bisecting Messenger:: a priest, divided messenger of God.
PARADISE, or PARVISE. Lat. Paradisus. Fr. Parvis. A court, portico, or atrium, in front of a church, usually surrounded with cloisters, either wholly or in part. Sometimes the term is applied to a churchyard or cemetery, or to the principal or regular cloister-garth of a monastery. Gloss. of Archit. ─ An Ecclesiastical Dictionary (1861)