Olney Hymns · Character
Bartimeus
The blind beggar who cried out to Jesus for mercy and received his sight.
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First appearance: book i on select texts of scripture
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Blind beggar who cries out for mercy and receives his sight.
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- Divine Judgment and Mercy
- Faith and Redemption Figures
- Protagonist
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
The emotional peak occurs in stanza V, where the speaker’s hope is violently extinguished as Satan obscures ev…
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See Bartimeus in book i on select texts of scripture