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[822:2] We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:3] The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:4] Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; oh prosper thou our handiwork.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:5] I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my stronghold; my God, in him will I trust.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:6] For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:7] Like a palm-tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.—Book of Common Prayer.
[822:8] The Lord is king; the earth may be glad thereof.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:1] The days of man are but as grass; for he flourisheth as a flower of the field.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:2] For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:3] To his work.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:4] And occupy their business.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:5] In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:6] Right dear.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:7] The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:8] I have more understanding than my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study.—Book of Common Prayer.
[823:9] A lantern unto my feet, and a light unto my paths.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:1] The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:2] Plenteousness.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:3] Like the olive branches.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:4] I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor mine eyes to slumber.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:5] How good and joyful a thing it is, brethren.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:6] As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:7] And remain.—Book of Common Prayer.
[824:8] Though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.—Book of Common Prayer.
[830:1] See Terence, page 702.
[835:1] Stare super vias antiquas.—The Vulgate.
[836:1] Magna est veritas et prævalet—The Vulgate.
Usually quoted "Magna est veritas et prævalebit."
[837:1] See Pliny, page 717.
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NEW TESTAMENT.Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew ii. 18; Jeremiah xxxi. 15.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Matthew iv. 4; Deuteronomy viii. 3.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Matthew v. 13.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Matthew v. 14.
Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
Matthew v. 43.
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.
Matthew vi. 1.
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Matthew vi. 3.
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Matthew vi. 7.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
Matthew vi. 20.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew vi. 21.
The light of the body is the eye.
Matthew vi. 22.
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Matthew vi. 24.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
Matthew vi. 25.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Matthew vi. 28.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew vi. 34.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Matthew vii. 6.
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew vii. 7.
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth.
Matthew vii. 8.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Matthew vii. 9.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew vii. 12.
Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
Matthew vii. 13.
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way.
Matthew vii. 14.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew vii. 20.
It was founded upon a rock.
Matthew vii. 25.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew viii. 20.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.
Matthew ix. 37.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew x. 16.
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew x. 30.
Wisdom is justified of her children.
Matthew xi. 19; Luke vii. 35.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew xii. 33.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew xii. 34.
Pearl of great price.
Matthew xiii. 46.
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
Matthew xiii. 57.
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Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew xiv. 27.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew xv. 14.
The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew xv. 27.
When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Matthew xvi. 2.
The signs of the times.
Matthew xvi. 3.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
Matthew xvi. 23.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew xvi. 26.
It is good for us to be here.
Matthew xvii. 4.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew xix. 6.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew xix. 19.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew xix. 24.
Borne the burden and heat of the day.
Matthew xx. 12.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Matthew xx. 15.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew xxii. 14.
They made light of it.
Matthew xxii. 5.
Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's.
Matthew xxii. 21.
Woe unto you, . . . for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.
Matthew xxiii. 23.
Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Matthew xxiii. 24.
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Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
Matthew xxiii. 27.
As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
Matthew xxiii. 37.
Wars and rumours of wars.
Matthew xxiv. 6.
The end is not yet.
Matthew xxiv. 6.
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Matthew xxiv. 28.
Abomination of desolation.
Matthew xxiv. 15; Mark xiii. 14.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Matthew xxv. 29.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew xxvi. 41.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
Mark ii. 27.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mark iii. 25.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark iv. 9.
My name is Legion.
Mark v. 9.
My little daughter lieth at the point of death.
Mark v. 23.
Clothed, and in his right mind.
Mark v. 15; Luke viii. 35.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark ix. 44.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke ii. 14.
The axe is laid unto the root of the trees.
Luke iii. 9.
Physician, heal thyself.
Luke iv. 23.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
Luke vi. 26.
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Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.
Luke viii. 17.
Peace be to this house.
Luke x. 5.
The labourer is worthy of his hire.
Luke x. 7; 1 Timothy v. 18.
Go, and do thou likewise.
Luke x. 37.
But one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.
Luke x. 42.
He that is not with me is against me.
Luke xi. 23.
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke xii. 19.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
Luke xii. 35.
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
Luke xiv. 28.
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luke xvi. 8.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
Luke xvii. 2.
Remember Lot's wife.
Luke xvii. 32.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
Luke xix. 22.
If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Luke xxiii. 31.
He was a good man, and a just.
Luke xxiii. 50.
Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us?
Luke xxiv. 32.
The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John i. 9.
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
John i. 46.
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
John iii. 8.
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He was a burning and a shining light.
John v. 35.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be
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