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Page 232 - Yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 58 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward. Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. Sleep to wake.
Page 138 - Jesus was the author and finisher of the faith; to* which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken...
Page 373 - I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Page 369 - Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing ; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Page 244 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 136 - ... thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam. 27 Then the Lord said to Moses, Write for thyself these words ; for on these terms I have made a covenant with thee and Israel. 28 And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant — the ten command29 ments.
Page 388 - For the lips of a priest guard knowledge, And men seek rulings from his mouth; For he is a messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
Page 115 - That sage, as you know, flourished during and shortly after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple by the Romans.
Page 142 - And all the congregation that came from the captivity made tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles, the like of which the children of Israel had not done from the days of Joshua, the son of Nun, to that day.