Saturday, November 2, 2013

Sermon on the Mount XIV



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Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast - not - thou made an hedge about him, - and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
    But put forth thine hand now, and touch all - that he hath, and he will curse thee to - thy face. . .
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
. . .For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt - my throne above the stars of God:

Thou hast multiplied - thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and - flieth away.
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth - they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. . . .
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And I will put enmity - between thee and the work-man, and between - thy seed - and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
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And Lamech said unto his wives, Ad-ah - and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
. . .There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom - hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
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.

But I say unto you, - Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father - which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

pub-li-can
(publi-kn)n. 1. Chiefly British. The keeper of a public house or tavern. 2. A collector of public taxes or tolls in the ancient Roman Empire. 3. A collector of taxes or tribute from the public.[Middle English, tax collector, from Old French, from Latin publicanus, from publicum, public revenue, from neuter of publicus, public. See PUBLIC.]

              Excerpted from American Heritage Dictionary


In antiquity, publicans (Greek τελώνης telōnēs; Latin publicanus (singular); publicani (plural)) were public contractors, in which role they often supplied the Roman legions and military, managed the collection of port duties, and oversaw public building projects. In addition, they served as tax collectors for the Republic (and later the Roman Empire), bidding on contracts (from the Senate in Rome) for the collection of various types of taxes. Importantly, this role as tax collectors was not emphasized until late into the history of the Republic (c. 1st century BC). The publicans were usually of the class of equites.

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For if - ye love them which love you, - what reward have ye? do not even the Re-publicans - the same? . . .

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated - from off the earth.
And he stayed yet other -seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not - again unto him any more.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

. . . And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Re-publicans - so?
Because - I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
He is the Rock, his work - is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity,  - just and right - is he.

Be yethere-fore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven - is perfect.


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Friday, November 1, 2013

Sermon on the Mountain VIII

mile
(mil)n. Abbr. mi., m. 1. A unit of length equal to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards (1,609 meters), used in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Also called land mile, statute mile. 2. A nautical mile. 3. An air mile. 4. Sports. A race that is one mile long. 5. A relatively great distance: had to walk for miles in the airport.


And he said, Who told thee - that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, where - of I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And whosoever shall compel - thee to go a mile,
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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.

And Is-ra-el - stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephra-im's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Man-as-seth's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, - be-fore whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto - this day,
The Angel which redeemed me - from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; - and let them - grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

They turn the needy out of the way:

com-pel
 (km-pel)v. tr. com-pelled, com-pel-ling, com-pels. 1. To force, drive, or constrain: Duty compelled the soldiers to volunteer for the mission. 2. To necessitate or pressure by force; exact: An energy crisis compels fuel conservation. See Synonyms at force. 3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway: "The land, in a certain, very real way, compels the minds of the people" (Barry Lopez).


And whosoever shall compel - thee to go a mile,

They turn the needy out of the way the poor of the earth - hide themselves together.

twain
(twan)n.adj.pron. Two.

go with him twain.
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and thy - desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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And the Sabeans fell upon them, and - took them away; - yea, - they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped al-one to tell thee.
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Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
  But let - judgment - run down - as waters, and righteousness - as a mighty stream.
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
There-fore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered - together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the - whole land.
Howl ye; - for the day of the Lord is at hand; - it shall come as a destruction - from the Almighty.
There-fore shall - all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
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Unto the woman - he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;

There-fore are my loins - filled with pain: - pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
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And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; - they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: - they shall be amazed - one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners there-of out of it.
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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.
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And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: - he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household  - after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice  - and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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tell
(tel)v. told (told). tell-ing, tells.v. tr. 1. To give a detailed account of; narrate: tell what happened; told us a story. 2. To communicate by speech or writing; express with words: tell the truth; tell one's love. 3. To make known; reveal: tell a secret; tell fortunes. 4. To notify; inform. 5. To inform positively; assure: I tell you, the plan will work. 6. To give instructions to; direct: told the customers to wait in line. 7. To discover by observation; discern: could easily tell that she was a newcomer. 8. To name or number one by one; count: telling one's blessings; 16 windows, all told.

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars,
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tell
8. To name or number one by one; count: telling one's blessings; 16 windows, all told.

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
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From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel:
thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one - head of the house of his fathers.

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Number the children of Levi - after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them - after their families, by the house of their fathers;
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if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall - not give - their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And I will punish the world - for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, - they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
There-fore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall - every man - turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
Their children - also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

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Thou, O king, saw-est, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form there-of was terrible.
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
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Your remembrances are like un-to - ashes, your bodies - to bodies of clay. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, - He made me not? - or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, - He had no understanding?
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Who hath declared - from the beginning, that we may know? and be-fore-time, that we may say, He is righteous?
yea, there is none that sheweth,
yea, there is none that declareth,
yea, there is none that heareth your words.
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His legs of iron, his feet - part of iron and part of clay.
Thou saw-est - till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, - broken to pieces - together, and
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Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
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became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors;
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But the dove found no rest - for the sole of her foot,
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and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image - became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
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This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation - thereof - before the king.

Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee - a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
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And to Seth, - to him also - there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created - he him;
male and female created - he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
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And it came to pass, when men - began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God - saw the daughters - of men that - they were fair; and they took - them wives of all which they chose.
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And where-so-ever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee - ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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Give to him that asketh thee, and - from him - that would borrow of thee - turn not - thou away.


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