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Robert L. Hathaway
During that scene of rustic amity as knight and squire join the goatherds for an evening meal, Don Quixote pulls Sancho to the ground to eat with him in a spirit of companionship and equality, saying ¿¿a quien se humilla, Dios le ensalza.¿¿ Citing Luke 14:11 at this point seems rather an inappropriate, an inopportune biblical injunction: why does it appear? Our thesis is that here Cervantes introduces a religious theme which will appear from time to time in Part One, and increasingly so in Part Two, culminating in Alonso Quijano's recognition that one must not put one's soul in danger. Indeed, at various moments in the first Quijote there may well be repetition of the lesson of humility; these pages address the question of our title by examining such possible reappearances, and in the process, reviewing the theme of religiosity in Cervantes's masterpiece.
