As a pre-Islamic term it described farmers burying seeds in the ground. One of its applications in the Quran is also the same meaning as farmer. Since farmers cover the seeds with soil while planting, the word kÄfir implies a person who hides or covers. Ideologically, it implies a person who hides or covers the truth.
While A Moveable Feast is the first and most complete posthumously published book by Ernest Hemingway, Mary Hemingway states, in her editor's note, that the book was finished in the spring of 1960, when he had completed another round of edits to the manuscript at the Finca.
Ken wrote this hymn at a time when the esÂ­tabÂ­lished church beÂ­lieved onÂ­ly ScriptÂ­ure should be sung as hymnsâwith an emÂ­phaÂ­sis on the Psalms. Some conÂ­sidÂ­ered it sinÂ­ful and blasÂ­pheÂ­mous to write new lyrÂ­ics for church muÂ­sic, akin to adÂ­ding to the ScriptÂ­ures. In that atÂ­moÂ­sphere, Ken wrote this and sevÂ­erÂ­al other hymns for the boys at WinÂ­chestÂ­er ColÂ­lege, with strict inÂ­structÂ­ions that they use them onÂ­ly in their rooms, for priÂ­vate deÂ­voÂ­tions.