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Page 487 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 253 - Father denotes the momentum of necessity, the " procession " of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, denotes the momentum of freedom in the inner revelation.
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Page 485 - Jerusalem, and again placed in authority over them, imposing on him the regulated tribute of the empire ; and because Hezekiah king of Judea did not submit to my yoke, forty-six of his strong fenced cities, and innumerable smaller towns which depended on them, I took and plundered : but I left to him Jerusalem, his capital city, and some of the inferior towns around it.
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