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James Joyce's New Testament

This page is an adjunct to my Joycean history of Judeo-Christianity [qv] which will try to collate all Joyce's specific allusions to the New Testament. (See also the Old.) The books are arranged in the order they were written, as best I can guess. I've included the Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1911 edition) for each book as well.

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Bartlett's quotes: Labour of love.
Study to be quiet.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

52 AD

Bartlett's quotes: The right hands of fellowship.
Weak and beggarly elements.
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.
Ye are fallen from grace.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Every man shall bear his own burden.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

53 AD

"But, gramercy, what of those Godpossibled souls that we nightly unpossibilise, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost, [6:18] Very God, Lord and Giver of Life?" [Oxen]

"[AE:] --Of the twoheaded octopus, one of whose heads is the head upon which the ends of the world have forgotten to come [10:11] while the other speaks with a Scotch accent." [Lestryg]

"In reply to a question as to his first sensations in the great divide beyond he stated that previously he had seen as in a glass darkly [13:12]" [Cyclops]

Bartlett's: God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.
I have planted, Apollo's watered; but God gave the increase.
Every man's work shall be made manifest.
Not to think of men above that which is written.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
The fashion of this world passeth away.
I am made all things to all men.
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
When I was a child, I spake as a child.... When I became a man, I put away childish things.
Now we see through a glass, darkly.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
If the trumpet give an uncertain sound.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
In the twinkling of an eye.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

"the upholding of the letter of the law [3:6] (common, statute and law merchant) against all traversers in covin" [Ithaca]

Bartlett's: Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
Now is the accepted time.
By evil report and good report.
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Though I be rude in speech.
Forty stripes save one.
A thorn in the flesh.
Strength is made perfect in weakness.

55 AD

"BLOOM... Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, [9:29] sabred the Saracen gunners to a man." [Circe]

Bartlett's: There is no respect of persons with God.
Fear of God before their eyes.
God forbid.
Who against hope believed in hope.
Speak after the manner of men.
The wages of sin is death.
For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
All things work together for good to them that love God.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Given to hospitality.
Be not wise in your own conceits.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
The powers that be are ordained of God.
Render therefore to all their dues.
Owe no man anything, but to love one another.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Bartlett's: To live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

70 AD

"the bath (rite of John) [1:9]" [Ithaca]

"for so saith he that holdeth the fisherman's [1:17] seal, even that blessed Peter on which rock was holy church for all ages founded." [Oxen] "His soul was foul with sin and he dared not ask forgiveness with the simple trust of those whom Jesus, in the mysterious ways of God, had called first to His side, the carpenters, the fishermen, poor and simple people following a lowly trade, handling and shaping the wood of trees, mending their nets with patience." [PoA3]

"Or had Lord Christ touched him and bidden him follow, like that disciple who had sat at the receipt of custom, [2:14] as he sat by the door of some zincroofed chapel, yawning and telling over his church pence?" [PoA4]

"But, gramercy, what of those Godpossibled souls that we nightly unpossibilise, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost, [3:28] Very God, Lord and Giver of Life?" [Oxen]

"DAMES DONATE DUBLIN'S CITS SPEEDPILLS VELOCITOUS AEROLITHS, BELIEF [4:20]" [Eolus]

"the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel [4:21]" [Oxen]

"On nags, hogs, bellhorses, Gadarene swine [5:1]" [Circe] "All those who are interested in the spread of human culture among the lower animals (and their name is legion) [5:9]" [Cyclops]

"they did divers wonders such as casting out devils, [5:8] raising the dead to life, [5:21] multiplying fishes, [6:34] healing the halt and the blind, discovering various articles which had been mislaid, interpreting and fulfilling the scriptures, [15:28] blessing and prophesying" [Cyclops]

"Women press forward to touch the hem of Bloom's robe. [5:27]" (Matthew is closer) [Circe]

"when he said about Our Lord being a carpenter [6:3]" [Penelope] "Jesus too had been born in poverty and had worked in the shop of a carpenter, cutting boards and planing them, and had first spoken of the kingdom of God to poor fishermen, teaching all men to be meek and humble of heart." [PoA3]

"And snug in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the twelve apostles having preached [6:7] to all the gentiles" [Nestor]

"Mr Mulligan, now perceiving the table, asked for whom were those loaves and fishes [6:41]" [Oxen] " Bloom's bodyguard distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes..." [Circe]

"Talbot repeated: --Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves [6:48]" [Nestor]

"And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun [9:3]" (Matthew is closer) [Cyclops]

"The Jews in the wilderness and on the mountaintop said: It is meet to be here. Let us build an altar to [9:5] Jehovah." [Eolus]

"I believe, O Lord, help my unbelief. [9:24]" [Scylla]

"he delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to put asunder what God has joined. [10:9]" [Oxen]

"--Very well, then, Temple continued, still addressing Glynn, and if Jesus suffered the children to come [10:13] why does the church send them all to hell if they die unbaptised?" [PoA5]

"and the first socialist [10:21] he said He was" [Penelope]

"On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers... They swarmed loud, uncouth, about the temple [11:15]" [Nestor]

"Here also over these craven hearts his shadow lies and on the scoffer's heart and lips and on mine. It lies upon their eager faces who offered him a coin of the tribute. To Caesar what is Caesar's, to God what is God's. [12:13] A long look from dark eyes, a riddling sentence to be woven on the church's looms." [Nestor] "And he showed them glistering coins of the tribute" [Oxen] "he was quite sure that behind the enigmatic utterances of Jesus there was a very much more definite conception than any which could be supposed discoverable behind Protestant theology." [SH ch19] "Enigmatical Christ" [SH notes]

"in the economy of heaven, foretold by Hamlet, there are no more marriages, [12:25] glorified man, an androgynous angel, being a wife unto himself." [Scylla] "Delightful and shall be for ever where there is no death and no birth neither wiving nor mothering" [Oxen]

"--Well, says John Wyse, isn't that what we're told? Love your neighbours. [12:31]" [Cyclops]

"That widow on Monday was it outside Cramer's that looked at me... Her widow's mite. [12:42]" [Nausikaa]

"But we have it on high authority that a man's worst enemies shall be those of his own house and family. [13:12]" [Scylla]

"And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, [14:3] bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns." [Cyclops]

"Because the theme of the false or the usurping or the adulterous brother or all three in one is to Shakespeare, what the poor are not, always with him. [14:7]" [Scylla]

"--For this, O dearly beloved, is the genuine Christine: body [14:22] and soul and blood and ouns." [Telem] "Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the gentle tepid stream. This is my body." [Lotus] "Now drink we, quod he, of this mazer and quaff ye this mead which is not indeed parcel of my body but my soul's bodiment." [Oxen]

quoting Yeats: "Why do you fly from our torches which were made out of the wood of the trees under which Christ wept in the gardens of Gethsemane? [14:34]" [SH ch22]

"And he answered with a main cry: Abba! [14:36] Adonai!" [Cyclops]

"she knew him not and then stands she in the one denial or ignorancy with Peter Piscator [14:68]" [Oxen]

"Jesus had a very pure tragic manner: his conduct during his trial [15] was admirable." [SH ch23]

"--Drown Barabbas! [15:7] Mr Dedalus cried." [Hades] "--You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that writ where Jacko put the nuts." [WRocks]

"he thought on Father Bernard Vaughan's droll eyes and cockney voice. --Pilate! Wy don't you old back that owlin mob? [15:8]" [WRocks]

"Buddha their god lying on his side... Not like Ecce Homo. Crown of thorns and cross. [15:17]" [Lotus]

"Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, [15:27] homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship." [Proteus]

"Mercadante: seven last words. [15:34]" 4th 'forsaken' [Lotus]

"The good bishop of Cloyne took the veil of the temple [15:38] out of his shovel hat: veil of space with coloured emblems hatched on its field." [Proteus]

"From farther away, walking shoreward across from the crested tide, figures, two. The two maries. [15:40]" [Proteus] "By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel" [Eolus]

Bartlett's: The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
My name is Legion.
My little daughter lieth at the point of death.
Clothed, and in his right mind.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Abomination of desolation.

Bartlett's: Touch not; taste not; handle not.
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.

80 AD

Bartlett's: Middle wall of partition.
Carried about with every wind of doctrine.
Speak every man truth with his neighbour.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

90 AD

"BRINI, PAPAL NUNCIO... Leopoldi autem generatio. [1:18]" [Circe] "Lord John Corley, some called him, and his genealogy came about in this wise." [Eumeus] "My mother's a jew, my father's a bird." [Telem]

"Christmas turkeys and geese. Slaughter of innocents. [2:16]" [Lestryg] "he was died in Mona Island through bellycrab three year agone come Childermas" 28Dec [Oxen] "Herod's slaughter of the innocents were the truer name." [Oxen]

"--He can fast for forty days... [4:2]
--God can do all things.
--There's a fellow in Capel St at present in a show who says he can eat glass and hard nails. He calls himself The Human Ostrich." [SH ch20]

"Leave ye fraction of bread to them that live by bread alone. [4:4]" [Oxen]

"And as for the temptation which Satan was allowed to dangle before the eyes of Jesus [4:9] it is, in reality, the most ineffectual temptation to offer to any man of genius. The well-known solicitor might succumb to it but for Jesus the kingdom of this world must have been a very empty phrase indeed-- at least when he had outgrown a romantic youth." [SH ch25]

"STEPHEN In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end. Blessed be the eight beatitudes. [5:3]" [Circe]

"the desirable life is revealed only to the poor of heart, [5:3] the life of Homer's Phaeacians" [Scylla]

"He looked upon you to lust after you. [5:28]" [Scylla] "To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter" (broadest definition of adultery) [Ithaca]

"He did not know, besides, whether the haughtiness of the Papacy was not as derivable from Jesus himself as the reluctance to be pressed beyond "Amen: I say to you" [5:37?] for an account of anything" [SH ch19]

"BLOOM... (He offers the other cheek.) [5:39]" [Circe]

"Nine lives are taken off for his father's one. Our Father who art in [6:9] purgatory." [Scylla] "Father Conmee read in secret Pater and Ave and crossed his breast." [WRocks] " Boody, breaking big chunks of bread into the yellow soup, added: --Our father who art not in heaven." [WRocks]

"Blind faith. Safe in the arms of kingdom come. [6:10]" [Lotus]

"Be good to Athos, Leopold, is my last wish. Thy will be done. [6:10]" [Hades]

"Watering cart. To provoke the rain. On earth as it is in heaven. [6:10]" [Calypso]

"Boland's breadvan delivering with trays our daily [6:11] but she prefers yesterday's loaves" [Calypso] "the smell of James Rourke's city bakery, situated quite close to where they were, the very palatable odour indeed of our daily bread" [Eumeus] "his eyes went aimlessly over the respective captions which came under his special province, the allembracing give us this day our daily press." [Eumeus]

"BROTHER BUZZ... Forgive him his trespasses. [6:12]" [Circe]

"The aunt always keeps plainlooking servants for Malachi. Lead him not into temptation. [6:13]" [Telem] "--Et ne nos inducas in tentationem." [Hades]

"--I am the servant of two masters, [6:24] Stephen said" [Telem]

"Sufficient for the day is the newspaper thereof. [6:34]" [Eolus]

"--Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own. [7:3]" [Cyclops]

"Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule. [7:12]" [Nausikaa]

"--A wolf in sheep's clothing, [7:15] says the citizen." [Cyclops]

"There was weeping and gnashing of teeth [8:12] over that." [Eolus]

"Women press forward to touch the hem of Bloom's robe. [9:20]" (closer than Mark) [Circe]

"And snug in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the twelve apostles having preached [10:5] to all the gentiles [not!]" [Nestor]

"Fear not them that sell the body but have not power to buy the soul. [10:28]" [Eumeus]

"With Joseph the joiner [13:55] I cannot agree." [Telem]

"Woe betide anyone that looks crooked at him: priest. Thou art Peter. [16:18]" [Hades] "Fatherhood... is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession ...On that mystery... the church is founded and founded irremovably because founded... upon the void. Upon incertitude, upon unlikelihood." Scylla-rock vs Charybdis-void [Scylla] "for so saith he that holdeth the fisherman's seal, even that blessed Peter on which rock was holy church for all ages founded." [Oxen] "he was a lefthanded descendant of the famous champion bull of the Romans, Bos Bovum, which is good bog Latin for boss of the show"" [Oxen] "nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick" [fw003]

longshot: "Saluting Ned Lambert and John Henry Menton he [John O'Connell] walked on at Martin Cunningham's side, puzzling two long keys [16:19] at his back." [Hades] (also Keyes-ad motif?) "And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns." [Cyclops]

"And they beheld Him in the chariot, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun [17:2]" (closer than Mark) [Cyclops]

"STEPHEN... I never could read His handwriting except His criminal thumbprint on the haddock. [17:27]" (via folktale) [Circe]

"Babes and sucklings [21:16] are held up." from Psalms [Circe]

"--Wise virgins, [25] professor MacHugh said." [Eolus]

"Sir, to you my hand. Well done, thou good and faithful servant! [25:21]" [Oxen]

"THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED ...THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED [25:32]" [Circe]

"STEPHEN Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. [26:41]" [Circe]

"And one more to hail him: ave, rabbi [26:49]" [Scylla]

"--Et tu cum Jesu Galilaeo eras. [26:69]" [PoA5]

"--And going forth he met Butterly. [26:75]" [Telem]

"LONG JOHN FANNING... Who'll hang Judas Iscariot? [27:5]" [Circe] "STEPHEN (Points.) Exit Judas. Et laqueo se suspendit." [Circe]

"--Mulligan is stripped of his garments. [27:28]" [Telem]

"A quartet of them, soldiers of the ninetyseventh infantry regiment, sat at the foot of the cross and tossed up dice for the overcoat of the crucified. [27:35]" [PoA5]

"The midnight sun is darkened. The earth trembles. The dead of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many. [27:45]" [Circe]

Bartlett's: Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. (Jeremiah xxxi15)
Man shall not live by bread alone. (Deuteronomy viii3)
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye.
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
It was founded upon a rock.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Wisdom is justified of her children.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Pearl of great price.
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
The signs of the times.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
It is good for us to be here.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Borne the burden and heat of the day.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
For many are called, but few are chosen.
They made light of it.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
Woe unto you,... for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.
Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
Wars and rumours of wars.
The end is not yet.
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

"VIRAG... A son of a whore. Apocalypse." [Circe]

"No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bogoak sceptre [man with lance?], a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle [4:6] from Carrantuohill." [Cyclops] "DOWIE... This vile hypocrite, bronzed with infamy, is the white bull [?] mentioned in the Apocalypse." [Circe]

"Blood of the Lamb. [7:14] His slow feet walked him riverward, reading. Are you saved? All are washed in the blood of the lamb." [Lestryg] "Washed in the Blood of the Lamb." [Oxen]

"(Brimstone fires [9:17] spring up. Dense clouds roll past. Heavy Gatling guns boom. Pandemonium. Troops deploy. Gallop of hoofs. Artillery. Hoarse commands. Bells clang. Backers shout. Drunkards bawl. Whores screech. Foghorns hoot. Cries of valour. Shrieks of dying. Pikes clash on cuirasses. Thieves rob the slain. Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. The midnight sun is darkened. [8:12] The earth trembles. [11:13] The dead of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise [20:12] and appear to many. A chasm opens [9:2] with a noiseless yawn. [etc]" [Circe]

"But their reign is rover for rever and ever [11:15] and ev..." [Circe]

"And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, [12:1] snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns." [Cyclops]

"Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil lights shining in the darkness. Where fallen archangels flung the stars [12:4] of their brows." [WRocks]

"THE NEWSBOYS... Sea serpent [12:9] in the royal canal." [Circe]

"STEPHEN A time, times and half a time. [12:14]" [Circe]

"Emblem of luck. Why? Probably lost cattle. Mark of the beast. [13:16]" [Circe] "BEAUFOY... a specimen of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the beast" [Circe]

"--It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction, I will not say the vials of his wrath [16:1] but pouring the proud man's contumely upon the new movement." [Eolus]

"...subsequent brawl and chance medley in Beaver street (Armageddon) [16:16]" [Ithaca]

"Women he won to him, tender people, a whore of Babylon, [17:5] ladies of justices, bully tapsters' wives." [Scylla] "A worshipper of the Scarlet Woman" [Circe]

"THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol eht rof, Aiulella! ...THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! [19:6]" [Circe]

"--Are you talking about the new Jerusalem? [21] says the citizen." [Cyclops]

"Lucifer, [22:16] dico, qui nescit occasum." [Proteus]

Bartlett's: Be thou faithful unto death.
He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
All nations and kindreds and tongues.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

95 AD

"--Is that first epistle to the Hebrews, he asked, as soon as his bottom jaw would let him, in?" [Eumeus]

"the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek) [5:6]" [Ithaca] also OT-Genesis

"I am positive when I say that if need were I could produce a cloud of witnesses [12:1] to the excellence of her noble exercitations" [Oxen] "Therewith was released in that kingsrick of Humidia a poisoning volume of cloud barrage indeed." [fw48] draft: "A cloud of witnesses indeed!" [Cad#3]

Bartlett's: Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
If God be for us, who can be against us.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Of whom the world was not worthy.
A cloud of witnesses.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
The spirits of just men made perfect.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

"Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God's angel to Mary quoth. [1:31]" [Oxen]

"Behold the handmaid of the [1:38] moon." [Proteus] "Our Blessed Lady herself said to the archangel Gabriel be it done unto me according to Thy Word" [Nausikaa]

"Warring his life long on the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. [1:46]" magnify/magnificat [Proteus]

"Quietude of custody, rather, befitting their station in that house, the vigilant watch of shepherds and of angels [2:8] about a crib in Bethlehem of Juda long ago." [Oxen]

"Mozart's twelfth mass: the Gloria [2:14] in that." [Lotus] "Glo--o--ri--a in ex---cel---sis De-------------o." [Scylla] "LYNCH I hope you gave the good father a penance. Nine glorias for shooting a bishop." [Circe]

"and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for the afflicted because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart [2:35] [2:46]" 1st Simeon's prophesy, 3rd loss in Temple [Nausikaa]

"--I have never believed in his chastity-- that is since I began to think about him. I am sure he was no eunuch priest. His interest in loose women is too persistently humane. All the women associated with him are of dubious character. 7:37]" [SH ch20] "Christ's unique relations with prostitutes... Not a eunuch priest." [SH notes]

"Jesus is on strange terms with that father of his. His father seems to me something of a snob. Do you notice that he never notices his son publicly but once-- when Jesus is in full dress on the top of Thabor? [9:35]" [SH ch19] "Christ and his Father: he knows him. Father recognizes him only once" [SH notes]

"Allbright he falls, proud lightning [10:18] of the intellect" [Proteus] "STEPHEN... (He fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.) That fell.
BLOOM (Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.
STEPHEN Lucifer. Thanks." [Circe]

"Nice discreet place to be next some girl. Who is my neighbour? [10:29]" [Lotus]

"Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion, [10:33] which he very badly needed." [Eumeus]

"Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. [10:37]" [Oxen]

"Martha, Mary... He is sitting in their house, talking... The other one, jar on her head, was getting the supper... She listens with big dark soft eyes. [10:38]" [Lotus]

longshot:"Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one [15:7] innocent person to be wrongfully condemned." [Hades]

"STEPHEN... Filling my belly with husks of swine. [15:16] Too much of this." [Circe]

"so grieved he also in no less measure for young Stephen for that he lived riotously with those wastrels and murdered his goods with whores. [15:30]" [Oxen]

"AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER [22:1]" [Eolus]

"A VOICE Bloom, are you the Messiah ben Joseph or ben David?
BLOOM (Darkly.) You have said it. [23:3]" [Circe]

"BLOOM... Weep not for me, O daughters of [23:28] Erin." [Circe]

"THE MOTHER... Have mercy on Stephen, Lord, for my sake! Inexpressible was my anguish when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary. [23:33]" [Circe]

"Mercadante: seven last words. [23:34]" 1st 'forgive' 2nd 'paradise' 7th 'commend' [Lotus] "Icarus. Pater, ait." [Scylla]

Bartlett's: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
The axe is laid unto the root of the trees.
Physician, heal thyself.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.
Peace be to this house.
The labourer is worthy of his hire. (Luke x7; 1Timothy v18)
Go, and do thou likewise.
But one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.
He that is not with me is against me.
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
Remember Lot's wife.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
He was a good man, and a just.
Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us?

100 AD

"STEPHEN (Looks behind.) So that gesture, not music, not odour, would be a universal language, the gift of tongues [2:4] rendering visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural rhythm." [Circe]

Ananias 1: "Unusual polysyllables of foreign origin she interpreted phonetically or by false analogy or by both: metempsychosis (met him pike hoses), alias (a mendacious person mentioned in sacred scripture). [5]" [Ithaca]

longshot: "SOPHOMORE PLUMPS FOR OLD MAN MOSES. [6:11]" [Eolus]

"And snug in their spooncase of purple plush, faded, the twelve apostles having preached to all the gentiles: [13:47] world without end." [Nestor]

Ananias 2? "in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias [22:12] Praisegod Barebones" [Cyclops]

Bartlett's: Thy money perish with thee.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Lewd fellows of the baser sort.
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
The law is open.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.
When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
I appeal unto Caesar.
Words of truth and soberness.
For this thing was not done in a corner.
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

"BLOOM... Deploying to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry Bonafide Sabaoth, [5:4] sabred the Saracen gunners to a man." [Circe] earlier in Romans

Bartlett's: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
How great a matter a little fire kindleth!
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.
Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

110 AD

"--Bloody wars, says I, I'll be in for the last gospel. [1:1]" 1:1-14 at end of mass [Cyclops] "STEPHEN In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end." [Circe] "so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the Word." [Oxen]

"Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. [1:5]" [Nestor] "Darkly they are there behind this light, darkness shining in the brightness" [Proteus] "Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil lights shining in the darkness." [WRocks]

indirect: "--They sinned against the light, [1:8] Mr Deasy said gravely." [Nestor]

"In woman's womb word is made flesh [1:14]" [Oxen]

"BLOOM... A fence more likely. First place murderer makes for. Wash off his sins of the world. [1:29]" [Circe] "STEPHEN Lamb of London, who takest away the sins of our world." [Circe]

"--Jesus, too, seems to have treated his mother with scant courtesy in public [2:4] but Suarez, a jesuit theologian and Spanish gentleman, has apologised for him." [PoA5]

"If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine [2:7]" [Telem]

"LYNCH... Here take your crutch and walk. [5:8]" [Circe]

"Then wotted he nought of that other land which is called Believe-on-Me, [6:35] that is the land of promise which behoves to the king Delightful and shall be for ever where there is no death and no birth neither wiving nor mothering at which all shall come as many as believe on it?" [Oxen]

"O'MOLLOY... My client, an innately bashful man, would be the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning [8:7]" [Circe]

"MANANAAN MACLIR... I am the light of the [8:12] homestead!" [Circe]

"AE pimander, good shepherd of men [10:14]" [Proteus] "Reuben J Dodd, blackbearded Iscariot, bad shepherd" [Circe]

"--I am the resurrection and the life. [11:24] That touches a man's inmost heart." [Hades]

"Jesus wept: [11:35] and no wonder, by Christ!" [Proteus]

"Come forth, Lazarus! [11:43] And he came fifth and lost the job." [Hades]

"STEPHEN... You die for your country, suppose. (He places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. [11:49]" [Circe]

"Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer, piglings, Conmee on Christass [12:14]" [Circe]

"Bloom's bodyguard distribute Maundy [13] money..." commemorates 'Maundy Thursday' [Circe]

"Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. [15:13]" [Oxen]

"Ut implerentur scripturae. [17:12]" [Oxen]

approx: "--They were nature's gentlemen, J.J. O'Molloy murmured. But we have also Roman law.
--And Pontius Pilate is its prophet, [18:36] professor MacHugh responded." [Eolus]

"Buddha their god lying on his side... Not like Ecce Homo. Crown of thorns and cross. [19:5]" [Lotus]

"Letters on his back: I.N.R.I.? [19:19] No: I.H.S." abbreviation [Lotus]

"BLOOM (In a seamless garment [19:23] marked I.H.S. stands upright amid phoenix flames.)" [Circe]

on Holy Saturday: "...The three faithful Mary's [19:25] too who thought all was over on Friday have a candle each." [SH 19]

"Mercadante: seven last words. [19:26]" 3rd 'son' 5th 'thirst' 6th 'finished' [Lotus] "Come. I thirst. [19:28] Clouding over." [Proteus] "He perceived dimly that a white figure had ascended the pulpit and he heard a voice saying Consummatum est. He recognised the voice and he knew that Father Dillon was preaching on the Seventh Word. He took no trouble to hear the sermon but every few minutes he heard a new translation of the Word rolling over the congregation. 'It is ended' 'It is accomplished.' This sensation awoke him from his day-dream and as the translations followed one another more and more rapidly he found his gambling instinct on the alert. He wagered with himself as to what word the preacher would select. 'It is... accomplished' 'It is... consummated' 'It is... achieved.' In the few seconds which intervened between the first part and the second part of the phrase Stephen's mind performed feats of divining agility 'It is... finished' 'It is... completed' 'It is... concluded.'" [SH ch19]

"--Boyd? Martin Cunningham said shortly. Touch me not. [20:17]" [WRocks]

Bartlett's: The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
He was a burning and a shining light.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Judge not according to the appearance.
The truth shall make you free.
There is no truth in him.
The night cometh when no man can work.
The poor always ye have with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Let not your heart be troubled.
In my Father's house are many mansions.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

112 AD

Bartlett's: Hope to the end.
Fear God. Honour the king.
Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
Be ye all of one mind.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

"FLORRY (Offended.) Well, it was in the papers about Antichrist. [2:18] ...THE NEWSBOYS... Safe arrival of Antichrist... (Reuben J Antichrist, wandering jew, a clutching hand open on his spine, stumps forward." [Circe]

Bartlett's: Bowels of compassion.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

125 AD

"--A new apostle to the gentiles, [2:7] says the citizen." [Cyclops]

Bartlett's: The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Fight the good fight.
Rich in good works.
Science falsely so called.

Bartlett's: A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

Bartlett's: Unto the pure all things are pure.

130 AD

Bartlett's: And the day star arise in your hearts.
The dog is turned to his own vomit again.

400 AD?

John 7:53-8:11 added? [cite]

"--He came. He was born of a virgin pure, Mary the virgin mother. He was born in a poor cowhouse in Judea and lived as a humble carpenter for thirty years until the hour of His mission had come. And then, filled with love for men, He went forth and called to men to hear the new gospel.
--Did they listen? Yes, they listened but would not hear. He was seized and bound like a common criminal, mocked at as a fool, set aside to give place to a public robber, scourged with five thousand lashes, crowned with a crown of thorns, hustled through the streets by the jewish rabble and the Roman soldiery, stripped of his garments and hanged upon a gibbet and His side was pierced with a lance and from the wounded body of Our Lord water and blood issued continually.
--Yet even then, in that hour of supreme agony, Our Merciful Redeemer had pity for mankind. Yet even there, on the hill of Calvary, He founded the holy catholic church against which, it is promised, the gates of hell shall not prevail. He founded it upon the rock of ages and endowed it with His grace, with sacraments and sacrifice, and promised that if men would obey the word of His church they would still enter into eternal life but if, after all that had been done for them, they still persisted in their wickedness there remained for them an eternity of torment: hell." [PoA3]

"The ideal presented to mankind by Jesus is one of self-denial, of purity, and of solitude" [SH ch14]

"The phrase which preachers elaborate into a commandment of obedience seemed to him meagre, ironical and inconclusive and the narrative of the life of Jesus did not in any way impress him as the narrative of the life of one who was subject to others." [SH ch19]

"--But here in Ireland by following your new religion of unbelief you may be crucifying yourself like Jesus-- only socially not physically.
--There is this difference. Jesus was good-humoured over it. I will die hard." [SH ch20]

"--Jesus is sad. Why is he so sad? He is solitary..." [SH ch20]

"-- But what is the Church? It is not Jesus, the magnificent solitary with his inimitable abstinences." [SH ch20]

G = Gifford and Seidman's Ulysses Annotated (2nd ed)
oihc = McManners (ed) Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity

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