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Page 161 - But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet ; and Abiezer was gathered after him. And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also was gathered after him, and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali, and they came up to meet them. And Gideon said unto GOD, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said...
Page 119 - God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Page 97 - And again, on any occasion when a person came [in my way] who had been a follower of the elders, I would inquire about the discourses of the elders — what was said by Andrew, or by Peter, or by Philip, or by Thomas or James, or by John or Matthew, or any other of the Lord's disciples, and what Aristion and the elder John, the disciples of the Lord, say. For I did not think that I could get so much profit from the contents of books as from the utterances of a living and abiding vo'ice.
Page 135 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
Page 276 - si penuse est ma vie!» Pluret des oilz, sa barbe blanche tiret. Ci fait la geste que Turoldus declinet.
Page 118 - And he smote Moab (and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground: and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive).
Page 139 - Greek—these are things for which Homer has in general no place. The Pan-Hellenism of Homer strikes a reader even at first sight; but it strikes him much more keenly when he reflects in what a network of feuds and fears and mutual abhorrences the life of primitive communities is involved. ' Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian,' says the Deuteronomist, breaking down the wall of hatred at particular points by definite injunctions.
Page 84 - rues ' the deed and is haunted by it. If he has not done it, he refrains from doing it. And this, not because any one forces him, nor yet because any particular result will accrue to him afterwards. But simply because he feels aides.
Page 278 - Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor, Quer feit i ert e justise et amor, Si ert credance, dont or n'i at nul prot : Tot est mudez, perdude at sa color ; Ja mais n'iert tels com fut as anceisors.
Page 32 - There is a way of thinking which destroys and a way which saves. The man or woman who is sophron walks among the beauties and perils of the world, feeling the love, joy, anger, and the rest ; and through all he has that in his mind which saves. — Whom does it save ? Not him only, but, as we should say, the whole situation. It saves the imminent evil from coming to be.