I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her
chastiser. Still I felt that Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes.
Yet there are other notes--sol and ut and la, And that harsh
chastiser that men call fa.
"True knights," conceived in such a way, would indeed, as Sansa hopes, "never harm women and children" (CoK 616); for "[a]mid the various duties of knighthood, that of protecting the female sex, respecting their persons, and redressing their wrongs, becoming the champion of their cause, and the
chastiser of those by whom they were injured, was presented as one of the principal objects of the institution" (Scott, "Chivalry" 13).
Ibsen's restless daemon, questioning and searching men's hearts, the
chastiser and visionary--all this stamped Lukacs for the rest of his life.
It may instead be meant as an allusion to another function of his: for Chandeshvara is also the
chastiser of transgressions.
by mankind, the Lord incarnate will appear as the Supreme
Chastiser. A highly disturbing social
We have seen before in the prophetic literature the role of the prophet as
chastiser of the king: Nathan takes David to task for failing in the monarch's role as an axis mundi--a mediating force between God and the Israelites in upholding the covenantal paradigm.