Sermon on the Mountain XLIV

 sheep's clothing,

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:

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Beware of false prophets,

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And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

This month shall be unto you - the beginning - of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Speak - ye - unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month - they - shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb - for an house:

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of - the first -year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

And – ye - shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall - kill it in the evening.

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which come to you in sheep's clothing,

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  And - they - shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein - they shall eat it.

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And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

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And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

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And when Jacob had made an end of - commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

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I tell you, in that night - there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

Two work-men shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste:

it is the Lord's passover.

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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families,

and kill the passover.

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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword - after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Again-st whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

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The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek - after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

  Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

  And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

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but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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Sermon on the Mountain XLIII

sub-tle

(sutl)adj. sub-tler, sub-tlest. 1.   So slight as to be difficult to detect or analyze; elusive. Not immediately obvious; abstruse: "subtle smiles resulting from subjectively humorous experiences unguessed by the world at large" (Josephine Dodge Bacon). 2. Able to make fine distinctions: a subtle mind. 3.   Characterized by skill or ingenuity; clever: "a journalist whose subtle views on the hard issues of our time are rooted in a tough mind and a demanding ethical sensibility" (New Republic). Crafty or sly; devious. Operating in a hidden, usually injurious way; insidious.[Middle English sotil, from Old French, from Latin subtilis. See teks-.]--sub'tle-ness n. --sub'tly adv.

bois-ter-ous

(boistr-s, -strs)adj. 1. Rough and stormy; violent. 2. Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline. See Synonyms at vociferous.[Middle English boistres, variant of boistous, rude, rough, perhaps from Old French boisteus, lame, limping, from boiste, knee joint.]--bois'ter-ous-ly adv. --bois'ter-ous-ness n.

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Enter ye in at the strait gate:

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For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: there-fore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

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for - wide is the gate,

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And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite:

and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven - their iniquity.

Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon - all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made them-selves aprons.

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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

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And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord - had respect – un-to - Abel and to his offering:

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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:

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

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And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

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for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Boz-rah, and a great slaughter in the land of Id-u-mea.

Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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And the uni-corns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

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And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

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For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up - for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever - and ever.

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and - broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the -Lord God had - made.

And he said unto the work-man, Yea, hath God said,

Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.

And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand?

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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe - from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

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And he said, A rGod.

And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from - before it.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth - thine hand, and take it by the tail. . . .

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And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

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And Canaan answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, - bid me come unto thee on the water.

And he said, Come. And when Canaan was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to RAheme.

But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying,

Lord, save me.

And immediately RAheme stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

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. . . And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that - they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

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For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet - thereat:

When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:

So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that - they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

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And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet - thereat:

When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.

and many - there be - which go in - thereat:

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