Read the following passage and then respond to the question below:
In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall .. but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other. -Lincoln
Why might Lincoln have used a biblical allusion referring to a divided house in his speech?
He wanted to emphasize that the North and South must work together in order to preserve our country, drawing importance to it using the authority of
religion
He believed the North and the South needed religion in order to survive.
He was revealing that the North and the South should never be able to work together as they are divided into two houses.
He wanted to further divide the North and South, keeping them separate.