Crossword-Solution: REVILERS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

See him with hands out-stretcht upon the cross; Immense compassion in his bosom glows; He hears revilers, nor resents their scorn: What matchless mercy in the Son of God! When the whole human race by sin had fall'n, He deign'd to die that they might rise again, And share with him in the sublimest skies, Life without death, and glory without end.

And, indeed, many events concur to prove that, as those who respect the priesthood, in their latter days enjoy the satisfaction of friendly intercourse, so do their revilers and accusers often die without that consolation.

But mark how the Apostle words it: Nay do wrong and defraud, and that your Brethren: Know you not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither Fornicator, nor Idolaters, nor Adulterers, nor Effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with Mankind, nor Thieves, nor Covetous, nor Drunkards, nor Revilers, nor Extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.

The singer, having praised the lover and rebuked the revilers of love, proceeds: “What is the Sunne worse of his *kind right,* *true nature* Though that a man, for feebleness of eyen, May not endure to see on it for bright? Or Love the worse, tho’ wretches on it cryen? No weal* is worth, that may no sorrow drien;** *happiness **endure And forthy,* who that hath a head of verre,** *therefore **glass From cast of stones ware him in the werre.

Then thus the prince: “To these shall we afford A fate so pure as by the martial sword? To these, the nightly prostitutes to shame, And base revilers of our house and name?” Thus speaking, on the circling wall he strung A ship’s tough cable from a column hung; Near the high top he strain’d it strongly round, Whence no contending foot could reach the ground.