Both Uses of
bequeath
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- He was later to say that this was a gift bequeathed him by his mother, that it was God's hand on him from his earliest beginnings; but then he knew only that when each night came, chaos and fever raged in him; the silence in the cabin between his mother and himself became something that could not be borne; not looking at her, facing the mirror as he put on his jacket, and trying to avoid his face there, he told her that he was going to take a little walk?†
Chpt 2.2bequeathed = give or pass down
- Sin is the only heritage of the natural man, sin bequeathed us by our natural father, that fallen Adam, whose apple sickens and will sicken all generations living, and generations yet unborn!†
Chpt 2.2 *
Definition:
give or pass down -- often upon death in a will