Sermon on the Mountain XXIV

Thee

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

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There-fore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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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 the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon him-self put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

rent2

(rent)v. A past tense and a past participle of rend.n. 1. An opening made by rending; a rip. 2. A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

man-tle

(mantl)n. 1. A loose, sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak. 2. Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: "On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads" (John Dollard). 3.   Variant of mantel. 4. The outer covering of a wall. . . . The layer of the earth between the crust and the core. 9. . . .The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.v. man-tled, man-tling, man-tles.                   

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And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth,

Then Job arose, and rent his - mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, - and worshipped,

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, - and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Where-fore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall - not be - male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou know-est, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

dis-pos-sess

(disp-zes)v. tr. dis-pos-sessed, dis-pos-sess-ing, dis-pos-sess-es. To deprive (another) of the possession or occupancy of something, such as real property.

If thou shalt say in thine heart, - These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

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Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; - here a little, and - there a little:

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

        But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

        Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; - when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

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And the Lord thy God will put out those nations - before thee by little - and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

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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.

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And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man - be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

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And Adah bare Jabal:. . . .And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron:

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The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

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as-suage

(-swaj)v. tr. as-suaged, as-suag-ing, as-suag-es. 1. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve. 2. To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example). 3. To pacify or calm: assuage their chronic insecurity.

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between - God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God - remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the mid-st of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

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Thee

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

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

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.

And unto Adam he said, Because - thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded - thee, saying, - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.

And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

When thou  till-est the ground, it shall not hence-forth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

pitch2

  5. To set at a specified downward slant: pitched the roof at a steep angle. 6.   To set at a particular level, degree, . . . 6. To slope downward: The hill pitches steeply. . . .   A steep downward slope. The degree of such a slope. 6.   Architecture. The angle of a roof. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch.

Make thee - an ark of gods prophet wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

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clave1

(klav)v. Archaic. A past tense of cleave1.

cleave1

 (klev)v. cleft   (kleft). or cleaved or clove    (klov). cleft or cleaved or clo-ven     (klovn). cleav-ing, cleaves.v. tr. 1. To split with or as if with a sharp instrument. See Synonyms at tear1. 2. To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting: cleave a path through the ice. 3. To pierce or penetrate.v. intr. 1. Mineralogy. To split or separate, especially along a natural line of division. 2. To make one's way; penetrate.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come - again to you.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

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And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, - or no.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these - forty years.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

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if there-fore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if - thine eye be evil, - thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If there-fore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

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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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Sermon on the Mountain XXII

Surely

There-fore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall - be one flesh.

And the serpent said unto the work-man, Ye shall not surely die:

And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened - their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

gold

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence - it was parted, and became into four heads.

The name of the first is Prison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

frankincense

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there - be a like - weight:

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection - after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, - pure and holy:

myrrh

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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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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, - after that - she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the work-men, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the work-men;)

Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the work-men unto the king's house.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: there-fore God, - thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above - thy fellows.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable work-men: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

For where your trea-sure is there will your heart be also.

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