I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
— Ezekiel 32:13
shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and muddy legs, was rather
— Charles Dickens
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.