Sermon on the Mountain XXIII

Body an Soul

light; they know not - the ways there-of, nor abide in the paths there-of. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

 twi-light

(twilit)n. 1.   The diffused light from the sky during the early evening or early morning when the sun is below the horizon and its light is refracted by the earth's atmosphere. The time of the day when the sun is just below the horizon, especially the period between sunset and dark. 2. Dim or diffused illumination. 3. A period or condition of decline following growth, glory, or success: in the twilight of his life. 4. A state of ambiguity or obscurity.n. attributive. Often used to modify another noun: the twilight glow of the sky; a twilight area in the interpretation of the Constitution.[Middle English twilighte :

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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, - No eye shall - see me: and disguiseth his face.

In the dark - they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light. For the morning - is to them even as the shadow of death: if one - know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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.

Behold, the name of the Lord cometh - from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

The light of the body is the eye:

The Body

My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children=s sake of mine own body. Yea, - young children despised - me; I arose, and they spake against me. All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

My bone - cleaveth to - my skin - and to - my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

God created the heaven . . .

And God called the firmament - Heaven.

Have pity upon me, - have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Oh that my words were now written!

oh that they were printed in a book!

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock - for ever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though - after my skin - worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I - see God:

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and Adam and his wife hid them-selves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid my-self.

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con-sume

(kn-soom)v. con-sumed, con-sum-ing, con-sumes.v. tr. 1. To eat or drink up; ingest. See Synonyms at eat. 2.   To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership. 3. To waste; squander. See Synonyms at waste. 4. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer. 5. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See Synonyms at monopolize.v. intr. 1. To be destroyed, expended, or wasted. 2. To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.

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Whom I shall see - for - my-self, and mine eyes shall behold, and not - another; - though my reins be consumed with-in me.

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be-fore

(bi-for, -for)adv. 1. Earlier in time: They called me the day before. 2. In front; ahead.prep. Abbr. bef. 1. Previous to in time; earlier than. 2. In front of. 3. . . .

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be-gan

(bi-gan)v. Past tense of begin.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter - before - the Lord: where-fore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter - before - the Lord.

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As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed - my soul; All the while my breath - is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; My lips shall - not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

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And Adam knew Eve - his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have got-ten a man - from the Lord.

And she - again - bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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God forbid that I should justify you: till I die - I will not remove mine integrity - from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall - not reproach me so long as I live.

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One - for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

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And Cain talked with Abel his brother:

 and it came to pass, when they - were in the field, that Cain - rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

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stan-dard-bear-er

(standrd-barr)n. 1. One who carries a standard - or banner, especially of a military unit. 2. An outstanding leader or representative of a movement, an organization, or a political party.

And shall consume the glory of his for-est, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

And the rest of the trees of his for-est shall be few, that a child may write them.

Thy dead men shall live, together with - my dead body - shall they arise.

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Come, my people, - enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it - were for a little moment, until the indignation be over-past.

The light of the body is the eye:

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