True rendering: "The Queen of the South shall stand in the judgment with the men of this [Abrahamic] brood, and condemn them; for she came from the farthest parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold something more than Solomon is here." (pleion Solomônos hôde) The word mistranslated "greater," pleion, is neuter and cannot be applied to a man. Jesus is not speaking of himself, but of the new Spirit animating a whole movement. The word "generation" as a translation of genea is, in this connection, misleading. No one English word can convey the satire on people who regarded themselves as holy by generation from Abraham (cf. Luke iii. 8), which is in the vein of Carlyle's ridicule of English "Paper Nobility." Above these self-satisfied claimants of inherited wisdom Jesus sets the Gentile Queen journeying to sit at the feet of Solomon. At the feet of Solomon Jesus also was sitting, and he certainly did not call himself personally greater than Solomon. The other allusion to Solomon (Matt. vi. 28, 29) is rendered thus: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Here "glory," which when applied to a man has a connotation of pride and pomp, is made to translate doxê, which means honour in its best sense, as preserved in "doxology." Jesus really says, "Solomon amid all his honours never arrayed himself (periebaleto) like one of these." The greatest and wisest of men did not affect display in dress. [51] The apparent slightness of these English changes reveals their deliberate subtlety. Puritanism, taking its cue from King James's translators, has bettered the instruction, and steadily pictured Jesus pointing to a lily,--white emblem of purity,--and censuring (implicitly) the ostentation of Solomon. Even in rationalistic hymn-books is found the pretty hymn of Agnes Strickland, beginning: "Fair lilies of Jerusalem, Ye wear the same array As when imperial Judah's stem Maintained its regal sway: By sacred Jordan's desert tide As bright ye blossom on As when your simple charms outvied The pride of Solomon." Very sweet! But the "lilies of the field" in Palestine are not "fair," their charms are not "simple"; they are large and gorgeous combinations of red and gold; and Solomon, so far from being proud in the contrast, "outvied" in simplicity the pride of the lily.