Caesar Killed with Bodkins

‘’ Not only do great sins ruin the soul, but lesse?’ faults will do the same. Dallying with temptation leads to sad conseqitences. CcEsar was killed with bodkins.” A dagger aimed at the heart will give as deadly a wound as a huge two-handed sword, and a little sin unrepented of will be as fatal as a gross transgression. Brutus and Cassius and the rest of the conspirators could not have more surely ended Caesar’s life with spears than they did with daggers. Death can hide in a drop, and ride in a breath of air. Our greatest dangers lie hidden in little things. Milton represents thousands of evil spirits as crowded into one hall; and truly the least sin may be a very Pandemonium, in which a host of evils may be concealed, — a populous hive of mischiefs, each one storing death.

Believer, though thou be a little in thine own sphere, beware of the bodkins of thine enemies. Watch and pray, lest thou fall by little and little. Lord, save me from sins which call themselves little.