Jesus rebukes James and John for their thirst for violent retaliation (Luke 9:51 — 56), encourages His followers to endure patiently when violently attacked (Mark 13:9 — 13), and disarms Peter when he violently resists evil by hacking off
the ear of a man trying to arrest Jesus (Matt.
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached
the ears of men.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth
the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
For example, when the fifteenth century was swinging into the sixteenth here are the big names that made the news and filled
the ears of men: Sultan Muhammad II, Pizarro, Cesare Borgia, Charles the Bold, Suleiman the Magnificent, Baber, Francis I. Ted, how much do you know about any one of them?
They will shimmer on
the ears of both men and women, attracting appreciative glances wherever you go.
(It could be argued that Shakespeare also linked synesthesia, in a broader form, to meaning: Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, describes his dream as being indescribable because «The eye of man hath not heard,
the ear of man hath not seen... what my dream was.»)