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Isaiah 61 has huge significance because… The Spirit of the…

Isaiah 61 has huge significance because… The Spirit of the Lord God is on me,  because the Lord has anointed me  to bring good news to the poor.  He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted,  to proclaim liberty to the captives  and freedom to the prisoners;  2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,  and the day of our God’s vengeance;  to comfort all who mourn,     Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Is 61:1–2.

For six of the following spot quotes, identify the author an…

For six of the following spot quotes, identify the author and work and discuss (2-3 complete sentences) the significance of this passage. Make sure you number each part of your answer to show which quote you are discussing. Answer in the space provided. (5 pts. each)  1. Sir, As I know that you will be pleased at the great victory with which Our Lord has crowned my voyage, I write this to you, from which you will learn how in thirty-three days, I passed from the Canary Islands to the Indies with the fleet which the most illustrious king and queen, our sovereigns gave to me.   2. . . . then as many as could laid hands upon him, dragged him to [stones], and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the King’s dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death, whereat the Emperor was contented he should live . . . 3. Lastly, a sacred rainbow was placed around Dine bikeyah, our homeland, for protection and as a blessing and a reminder of the sacredness of this land. It is said that so long as the Dine remain within this boundary, we will have the blessings and protection of the Holy People. So long as we remain within these boundaries we will be living in the manner that the Holy People prescribed for us. 4. But such of the passengers as were yet aboard showed them what mercy they could, which made some of their hearts relent, as the boatswain who was a proud young man and would often curse and scoff at the passengers. But when he grew weak, they had compassion on him and helped him; then he confessed he did not deserve it at their hands, he had abused them in word and deed   5.         ‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,             Taught my benighted soul to understand             That there’s a God, that there’s a savior too:             Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.   6.         I am obnoxious to each carping tongue             Who says my hand a needle better fits,             A poet’s pen all scorn I should thus wrong,             For such despite they cast on female wits:             If what I do prove well, it won’t advance             They’ll say it’s stol’n, or else it was by chance.    7. About two hour in the night, my sweet Babe like a Lamb departed this life, on Feb. 18, 1675. It being about six years, and five months old. It was nine days from its first wounding in this miserable condition, without any refreshing of one nature or other except a little cold water . . .I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all night after. I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me, in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses, in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.   8.  Who would your wealth on terms, like these, possess,       Where all we see is pregnant with distress—       Angola’s natives scourged by ruffian hands,       And toil’s hard product shipp’d to foreign lands.