Inherited wealth seemed like a shower of gold from heaven, falling randomly.
If you don't watch "Supernatural," then you missed the only season finale that ended with all the angels in heaven falling to earth.
ON Sunday afternoon, in an old Lower East Side synagogue whose threshold is inscribed with the Hebrew words for Gates of Heaven, the ceiling of heaven fell.
Virgil's aërii mellis celestia dona, Dryden's "air-born honey, gift of heaven", falls to earth, like the mating queen and drone that fell at the feet of the Revd Millette of Pennsylvania in 1859 and at last solved the conundrum of honeybee reproduction.
[12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Let justice be done, even if the heavens fall.
Let justice be done to the English language, though the heavens fall.
In London or Madrid it is all too easy to say: "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall".
Republicans can say "let the rule of law prevail though the heavens fall," or they can say. . .
Descriptive of such ethics are such expressions as "Duty for duty's sake," "Virtue is its own reward," and "Let justice be done though the heavens fall".
Overall, it seems a far from damnable record from a government which never promised that justice would be done though the heavens fall.
