SPIT ON MY FACE YOU JEWS
(Holy Sonnet 11)
The present Sonnet of John Donne deals with the theme of Christianity through comparison between the community of Christians and Jews. Generally the community of Jews is considered to be the anti-Christian and harmony is not to be found between these two communities. Christians take it for granted that the Jews are sinners but the present Sonnet, puts before us altogether a different picture. The poem is addressed by the sinner in which he admit that he is a worse sinner than those Jews. Accepting himself as a sinner he mentions that looking to the total amount of sins which he has committed in his life he deserve to be punished and ridiculed by the Jewish. If the Jews split on his face, beat him with cheving blows and crucify him, there is nothing wrong in it. He accepts that he has lived the life of a sinner. All those who had never done any injustice or wickedness have already died. He lives because he has to suffer for his sins. The sinner goes one step ahead in accepting the truth that, his sina cannot be washout even by the way of death. Death would not be happy to put and end to the life of the sinner the sinner is a fully aware of the truth that his sins are beyond the impurity and sins of the Jews. The sinner recalls life of Jesus Christ saying that he was crucified only once when he was alive but after his death his followers, the Christians crucify him everyday by not following the principles of Christianity- 10 commandments. Which Moses had received. The sinner would like to admire Christ before he meets his final end. Christ was pardoned by the king but he accepted punishment for the sake of his followers. After Christ the next person to come was Jacob who gave more importance to attire- to formalities, instead of giving importance to the truthfulness of heart. The sinner considers him a supplant and a person with gainful intention. The sinner finally shares the truth with others that God had put on his clothes in the form of human flash and blood to save mankind and to suffer the scenes of mankind. That God was non else but Christ himself.
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