The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Sons, 1900 - Christian saints |
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Page 3 - And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh : and the child was young.
Page 14 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep and there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear...
Page 52 - He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
Page 276 - Go and sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor : and come and follow me.
Page 30 - In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months : and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
Page 33 - Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise* up evil against thee out of thy own house: and I will take thy wives before thy eyes, and give them to thy neighbour: and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.
Page 62 - Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person : for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.
Page 75 - His tabernacle in thee, and may call back all the captives to thee, and thou mayest rejoice for ever and ever. Thou shalt shine with a glorious light; and all the ends of the earth shall worship thee. Nations from afar shall come to thee, and shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy. For they shall call upon the great name in thee. They shall be cursed that shall despise thee : and they shall be condemned that...
Page 196 - And anon it was known all about, how that he was martyred, and anon after took this holy body, and unclothed him, and found bishop's clothing above, and the habit of a monk under. And next his flesh he wore hard hair, full of knots, which was his shirt. And his breech was of the same, and the knots sticked fast within the skin, and all his body full of worms ; he suffered great pain.
Page 21 - Ix>rd liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me, from doing thee any evil; if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning...