Sermon on the Mountain XXV

Love

And God made the firmament, - and divided the waters which were under the firmament - from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:

and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, - after - the name of his son, Enoch.

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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, -  and his sons' wives with him:

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

re-strain

(ri-stran)v. tr. re-strained, re-strain-ing, re-strains. 1.   To hold back or keep in check; control: couldn't restrain the tears. To hold (a person) back; prevent: restrained them from going. 2. To deprive of freedom or liberty. 3. To limit or restrict . . . from Latin restringere, to bind back. See RESTRICT.]

                                                            American Heritage Talking Dictionary

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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained - from them, which they have imagined to do.

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And God said, Let us - make man in our image, - after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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con-found

(kn-found, kon-)v. tr. con-found-ed, con-found-ing, con-founds. 1. To cause to become confused or perplexed. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. To fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact. 3. To make (something bad) worse: Do not confound the problem by losing your temper. 4. To cause to be ashamed; abash: an invention that confounded the skeptics. 5. To damn. 6.   To frustrate: picayune demands that all but confounded the peace talks. Archaic. To bring to ruination.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand - one another's speech.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off - to build the city.

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And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the work-men also, and the people.

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Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

No man can serve two masters:

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

And Isaac said unto them, Where-fore come ye to me, seeing ye - hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing where-with his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb:

And she conceived - again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath there-fore given me - this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, - and told his two brethren without.

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And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more - for his dreams, and for his words.

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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, - and it grieved him at his heart.

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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

per-ad-ven-ture

 (purd-venchr, per-)adv. Archaic. Perhaps; perchance.n. Chance or uncertainty; doubt.

re-quite

(ri-kwit)v. tr. re-quit-ed, re-quit-ing, re-quites. 1. To make repayment or return for: requite another's love. See Synonyms at reciprocate. 2. To avenge.

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

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If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy - and sevenfold.

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Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third - and fourth generation of them - that hate me;

for either he will hate the one,

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lov-est, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

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And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted - after his mother's death.

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison:

but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Now there-fore take, I pray thee, - thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;

And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee - before I die.

Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence - two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savioury meat - for thy father, such as he loveth:

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch - me them.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savioury meat, such as his father loved.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years - for Rachel - thy younger daughter.

And Jacob served seven years - for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, - for the love - he had - to - her.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he - loved also - Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven - other years.

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: - for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; - now there-fore - my husband will love me.

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

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hoar

(hor, hor)adj. Hoary.n. Hoarfrost.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands - profit me, in whom - old age was perished?

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me - from the belly, which are carried - from the womb:

And even to your old age - I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

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Un-to Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his - old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, - they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

and love the other;

ISamuelyeaon-AmAllah