During childhood it can be a never-ending delight to stand a glass prism in a sunny window and enjoy the effect of the rainbow tints that fall on various objects.
There's a promise in the Bible: "Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Once when an adulteress was brought before Christ Jesus, her accusers, ready to mete out to her the punishment prescribed by Mosaic law, pressed him for his judgment of the matter.
