The Kingslayer, Ser Barristan said, his voice hard with contempt. The false knight who profaned his blade with the blood of the king he had sworn to defend.
No wonder you think of The Last Supper when you see this picture, for Rembrandt has painted a secular altarpiece. Mysterious, dangerous, joyously profane.
And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, 'These are the Lord's people, and yet they had to leave his land'.
I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name.