Verse 13
13. Made you go upright The crushing yoke bowed the wearer to the earth, and assimilated him to the beast of burden often his yoke-fellow. Emancipation gave to him the erect form, and repeated the miracle of creation, “God will have no slavery of a social kind. He is against all bonds and restrictions that keep down the true aspirations of the human soul. God has always proceeded upon the principle of enlargement and the inheritance of liberty.” Joseph Parker.
Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri
Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Ovid.
To man he gave an upturned face,
And bade him scan the heavenly space,
And view, with countenance erect,
The firmament with stars bedecked.
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