Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“Do you not feel how I should grieve to be the ghost to cross the path of true communion in the Elysian grove.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Could the child keep learning his earthly as he does his heavenly father from all best experience of life till at last it were the climax "I am the Father.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“You know I was prepared with you. I drew your lot myself: "Except ye drink his blood ye are none of his.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“common men cannot rise high enough to see why they think or do as they do, and settle the matter easily to their own satisfaction, crying, "He is mad" ? "He hath a devil.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p79
Inferred The specific source is inferred from the quoted phrase, which functions as a recognizable biblical tag, though it may also have been treated as a common cultural idiom rather than a deliberate citation.
“I think continually of the passage 'He is of age, ask him'— Heaven will do so.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“God's idea of man, which shines into every man from the beginning; "Enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world," though his darkness comprehendeth it not, until it is "made flesh." It is by virtue of that freedom which is God's alone, and which is the issue of absolute love, that is, "because God so loved the world,”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
John 1:9 and John 3:16 are quoted in the Brownson Dial review section; the biblical text is embedded in the reviewer's summary of Brownson's theological argument.
“This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased" [...] if the mind of St John, for instance, had conceived the whole and offered it to as as a poem, to me, as far as I know, it would be just as real [...] "Nevertheless I tell you the truth_ It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”
Fuller, Margaret. "A Credo." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 97.
Inferred Fuller directly quotes John 16:7 verbatim ('Nevertheless I tell you the truth — It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you') and alludes to Matthew 3:17 / 17:5 ('This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased'). (3) Direct verbatim quotation of John 16:7 KJV (p20, lines 1059–1069): 'Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.' Fuller's quotation matches KJV exactly (minor scribal variants).
“only perfect love casteth out fear”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“wilt thou not bid us "go and sin no more"?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred A verbatim quotation of John 8:11 (King James Version): 'go, and sin no more.' The biblical source is inferred from the quoted phrase.
“Then he put his hand to his brow, and cried in a voice of the most penetrating pathos, "Have I been so long among you, and ye have not known me?”
Inferred A near-verbatim quotation from John 14:9 (KJV: "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?").
“the Messiah may be supposed still to give as excuse for delay, "The poor you always have with you.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“The word descended and became flesh for two purposes, to organize itself, and to take cognizance of its organization.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“I wear your ring "Feed my lambs" and feed all I can catch, with the same straw I get myself.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“I was the Mater Dolorosa, and I remembered that the midwife who helped Angelino into the world came from the sign of the Mater Dolorosa.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.