PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2
Henry Robert Reynolds [1825-1896] · 490,594 words · 512 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 2 — Section 61
Israel only, but of mankind. The majesty of his po~ition and office did not break In upon him either grndnally or suddenly. He brought with him to earth tho consciousness or a Divine election and commission. And in such pa.•sa,,CTCs as this we have a revela- tion of hi~ mind ; and we feel that no mere human teacher …
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any pnrt of Christinnity. The translators of the Authorir.ed Version went out of their way to render" one fold," for which there is no justification. The unity Christ desires is not a. unity of form, but of spirit; not a matter of mschaniAm, hut of vitality. One Church and nnothcr may claim the "note" of univers[l. lit…
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Vers. 24-26.-The explanation of wnbilief. Jesus knew well what must be the end of such discussions as that hero recorded. Irritation and hostility woro increased. A izrowing number of the Jews committed themselves to the cRuso of Christ's adver- saries. And the selfish reasons for their opposition were multiplied. Yet …
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followers enjoy fellowship with ench other anrl with him during their pilgrimage here. He is the Door of this visible fold, llS well as that of the invisible and vaster realm of all spiritual blessings. lie is the Door, not e.rbitrarily but ne.turally, in virtue of what he is in himself, the Son of God; and in virtue…
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1111d s<>rvicc, (4) There iefi·ecdom qf thought. The only rMI froo thinker in the world ii; be who has been made free by the truth. He who thiuks without Divine guidance is a slave and a libertine; but the custody of Christ is safo froedom and free so.fety. 3. lntimaf.e fellowship with Christ. How intimate we are wit…
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Thie is the inspiration of the mission of eel6shneee in every age. Its aim is eelf- advo.nto.ge, power, authority, glory, fame, the praise of men, numerical strength, and r,redominant influence. (2) It is inspired by self-advantage at the exp-,nse of other!!.. The thief in benefiting himself robs his fellow-man. The p…
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sideration would cause him to remain in his native happintlss and glory, and keep him for ever from the adverse circumstances of his hum1m life, and from thtl repulsive sccnea 1111d treatment of this world. But as nothing but his appearance in human nature could hring life t-0 a dying world, be Cllme, and this was t…
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life. Evory life is vory prccious-thflt of the flower or that of the flniinal; but human life i3 moro precious still. Personally considered, every human life is e'l.ually precious; bnt relo.tivoly, some lives are moro precious than others. The life of the general is thus more precious th,m that of the common sol<lier.…
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cross, conld come down from it, could live on it,, and in spite of it and its aaonies. "Ho bc,wed his head, gl\ve up the ghost," etc. 4. Hi,s death was purely vicar~us. Every man most die for himself. It is the debt of nature. nut Christ had no debt of his own to pay. He came under the law of death to pay the debts …
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creation. The old and the new. He made them first. men, and then Christians-new crcnturee in himsdf. 'l'hey Rre his workmanship. (2) By a Divine gift. "The Fnther, which gavo them me." They are the gifts of his Father's love, given to him in trust for tho purpose of salvation. (3) By purchase. He laid down his life for…
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to own tbem R~ hi~. Tb<' r<'lntionsbip he publicly confesses. "My sheep." 'l'hcy nrc ndmitt<'rl to t.bc circle of his immediate friendship, his Rympatl,y, love, and help. (3) Hi~ recog-nition to them is tlie lii'ghcst lionour. To be recognized by the grent nm\ rich of thi6 world is considered a high honour. How much…
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who are afrnid to repent; but only to such. Iu thdr own c:iso they surely po~sess the J!Crms at least of a good and worthy chRracter, and while they nre williniz that these germs ~hould l~ nourished au~ fostered by the teaching of Jesus Christ, they can Mk from him nothing more, notlung at least that can be called s…
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heo.rt of m11n, the things which God bath prepared for them that love him.n Thry "taste ancl see that God is good" when they enter into the secret of his presenc0 through the open door of Christ's mediatorship, and thus our Lord's great promise i3 fulfilled, "He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believe…
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ch11mc,tpr-nrYcr met wit,h I\ refu~111 whon he snirl authoritatively to one 11ncl nnother1 "Follow me!" ,Yhen ho Raw NRthnn:\cl coming to him he said, "llehold I\U faraclite in<lced, in whom is no guile." When he beheld Simon the ROil of Jonas, he g:we him 11 new naruo, which Pctor in the long run justified. Anrl wh…
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visible nnd tangible, nnd m11y be counterfeited, but not its roots. Tho strong ties that bind tho Shepherd to his flock are among the things that are unseen and et~rnal. The wol'!d cannot broBk them, nor even understand them. Time does not impair them, cleBth will not destroy thorn. "He gives to hie sheep eternnl li…
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how it hRs deercned men's thoughts l\nd widened their holizon. But wherever lt baa tnken root, individual souls have consciously owned its power and yielded them- selves up to its guidance. No census cl\n count up their numbers, No test that mnn can Rpply will infallibly distinguish them from all others. It is only …
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friendship le described in that benediction, which from the beginning has been pro- nounced over. tho assemblies of Christ's disciples at the dose of their worship. It is cBlled "tho grare of the Lord Jesus Christ," because it iR bestowed on the unworthy through the humiliation of the God-Man. It is called "the love of…
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Yer. 4.-Thefamiliar voice. Here we have an illustration of the advantnge in some respects of ear over eye, of sound over light. By the shepherd's voice the sheep know him even when the.v cannot see him. They never make any mistake. A etran<Ter might come and bellow himself hoarse, and they would just stop where they w:…
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with the thief, nnd then with the hireling. Jn this verse the contrMt is with the thief. 'l'ho thief comes to steal, taking away the sheep from its proper owner. The thief comos to kill, taking awny from the sheep all further use antl enjoyment of its own life. 'l'ho thief comes to destroy, ravaging through the fold in…
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and ho,,. m11Rt he find his own amid the mixed crowd? Dy the ein1ple plan of calling each ~hrep by name. And eo the shepherd takes them out and goes in front or them till thr pasture is reached. His voice is quite enough to keep them tight. They will not folio,,- a etrnnger, for they know not the voice of strangeTB.…
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declBrntion, "I hBTB power [or, 'Buthority'] to lay it down." We need ever to recollect nil thnt was voluntary, delibomte, foreseen, Bnd intentional in the deBth of Jesus. On one side that dea.th ie the most concentrated illustration of human wickedness and cor- ruption the world hBs ever seen. On the other side it is …
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culminating act or power, of hie supreme Somo writore, with Epiphe.niue, have said 11,nd Pclf-rev011,1ing work of transcendent they fe!lred, when their narr11,tivee were made tcnrlernees 11,nd beauty, w11,s a. deeper a.nd public, to call such marked attention to the wilder pa.seion of ha.tred. The en.ngelist fflmily…
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(Luko Ii. 4; Acts u.iii. 8-1; R.T. of Rev. ix. nothing but n solitary garment; and his 18). The oontontion of Greeswell that &1rll subsequent identifico.tion with tho y011ng referred to present residence, e.ncl /,c to man who fferl away nakccl on the night of nativity, and that the ,c,l,µ.71 was to be_found Christ's …
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loveetis siok (t,,. t•'-•isnominittive t,o ,l,,-8,v,,). wo do not sec here e.ny intention on his pnrt, The eieters knC'w well what peril Jcsue nnd by remaining, ro test their lovo (Olshnueen), his disciplce would encounter by lll'ming to nor to c-xllggcrate the effect of tho miracle Dcthany, nn<l they must have knuw…
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'fho cliRoiples 1110 more in rear for thoir nnrl HO to cref\tefor himgolf" f\ thirteenth hour" ~foslor thRn for thomeelvee. 'fhe residence to the <lay, in which be would secnro no beyond Jordan hacl beon briof, nm! lhey nre blessing ; that the Lorri conrlemned tho pro- amazed that lhe Lord will so soon put him- pose…
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as he snid, " fnllen asleep," in tl1at new which they orJimully med tho word. When ~enec in which Jesus WILB teaching men to Josue described the condition of Lazarne in look on dC"Rth. lint I go, that I may awake flgul'ntivo lnngungo, he mado uee of a mota- him out of sleep ( ?{u,rv(a-o, is a le.to Greek phor which …
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i. 13), nnd with Judns tho brothor of ,Jesue. been 1 in the grave; or literally, harl had fmtr He is rnputod to hnve pronched ultimntely days. These four dayR rue differently counter\. In Pa.rthlB o.nd lnrlio., there to ho.ve eulfered Alford, Luthflrdt, Ilengetenberg, Lo.nge, martyrdom. The various reforences lo him…
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more trinl of fnit.11, ono furlhor opportunily Yrr. 21.-MarLha therefore (h11ving mol o( recog-niziag his glory. Many of tJ,em bor Lord) s!Lid unto l eeue, Lord, if thou came I lo llfarth,i mid Mary. Thov <'Rme to hadst been here-t!JO ,I ~• if.5, oxprcssoe no oon1fort them, according to ordin°1uy usage comph\int: "I…
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that he will rise again at the ro3nr,ootion Christ, nnd itlcntifies itsolf with him. Bnt in tho last day, Somo disappointment iB "tbero nre eomo who hnvo believed, nnd rovealed in this epoccu, enoh oe wo ho.vo all ho,ve what you co.11 rlierl "-thrrngh they die, felt with tho promise or a.n ultimate rcRar- they shall li…
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~in<'c> Rwailc>d--e"en he that oometh into the cornfort.ing llfory, and (vor. 87) recognized world, the Hopc> of All, in foot, tho Rosur- his love in its Divine depths, aud if (see l'('c(ion nnd the Life beoouse the Christ "nd vor. 45) (1r0Mol) "many bolicvC<I on him," thc> Christ bcoouse the Son of God. I~ her and …
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an<! several ~ersions, and adopted by Ti- I Ao(aV'TES is the reading of N, B, c•, D, L, 11Chendorf (8th edit.), Alford, Tregelles, R.T., X. and is adopted by Tischendorf (8th edit.), and Westcott and Hort, against Lachmann, Tregelles, R.T., and Westcott and Hort. T.R., etc., who read .,. ..;;r.., with A e.nd D. The cur…
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John nf hnm11,n be11,rt e.nd spiriL. Th1rJo (ver. :13), but it implies e. continuity of grand, trnn hnve been for 11.ll the ages e. grand holy indigne.tio? against the 1monll\ly of t~st.imouy to the fulness of his huml\nity, death, from which tho huml\n family and encl 11lso R Divine rcvele.tion of the very beo.rt h…
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dltlon apparently hopeless: nod (3) o. type They lifted the stone, and Jesus lifted up o.lso or one dertd in tre~po.sses and sins hill eyes to hea1Jen. This is not to be taken (Trench on tho M'imcles)-one whose ho.bits a.a an ordinary pra.yer, but a thanksgiving of trcapnss nnd bondngo to ovil seem to for- for pmyer al…
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they '\'iere inlroduoed into a later but in• this. It seems to me that thia supposition, autiientir narrative of the sooond oentnry somewhat modified e.e above, throws light to eslRblish tho Divinity or Obrist. The upon vere. 41, 42.) 'l'he words thcmsolves simple foot ie that the words o.re not nro applioable to a …
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he• did, believed on him; but oertain of them ii. 553! eto'. This name is Greek (thongh went away to the Pharisees, and told them Hebra1zed 1n the Talmud), and signifies the the things whioh lesu had done. npot rtJv supreme court of the people, resident in Maplav. Here Mary is named alone, as the Jerusalem, consisti…
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enthuslAPm in ohook. De Wette and Heng- man who WM holding the position &t this 11tenberg strongly urge that by .,.d,roi, WAB aolemu time, with obvioua referenoe to the me11.ni the temple, "the dwelling-ple.oo fact th&t now for m&ny years the functions &nd se&t of the whole people" (Pe. lxxxiv. of the high priest were …
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ai11l ne in nil genuine propheoiee there are (T,uke xxiii. 51), but the majority ove:rruled tTUJaninos meant by God heyond whn.t the the dissi<lents. This is the very climax of nttcror of them nt n.11 oonceived poesible. Bo their perversity. They have reaol ved on here. Thia he ape.ke not from himeelf: but the death-pe…
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deeert region norlh-enet or Jerull8lem to the effected will be a oomplelod not ; so thllt the comp,rny of the twelve. elBtement give, a reuon for the excitement Yer. 55.-Now the Paaovar of the lewa among the peo1ae. wu at hand: and many want up to leru- Ver. 67.-1 lfow the ohiet prieats and salem out of the oountry…
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IJ. THEIR MESSAGE TO JEsus. "Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick." 1. It was a message full qf delioocy; f« it did not urge him to come. The sisterR knew that, even from Porm11, it was possible for Jesus to put forth his power of healing; whi'e they could not but know of the perils of nn immediate return to J u,lma. 2. I…
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Vers. 17-27.---,Tesus and Ma,rtha,. Our Lord had at Jut come to the neigb\,our- hond of Reth1my, but not to the village itself, I. THE 001'-00LENCII OF THE J EWB WITH TBE BERRAVED BIBTERB. "And many of the Jews came to Martha and :Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.n 1. Thi• 'Vi.sit of sympathy implies t…
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Lord, I believe thR.t thou A.rt the Christ, the Son of Gorl, which should come into tho world," (1) 'l'his was a prompt R.nd full acceptance of the revelation just made to her. (2) It marks likewise the foundation upon which that revchtion rested. (a) JesuA w11s Christ, the end of the theocratic prophecies and promises…
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II. Tm, PRAYER OF JEms AS A PREFAOE TO TA& MJRAOLB, "FRther, I thRnk thee hmrn~e thou hRet beard me." 1. It t's more a thanksgiving than a prayer, (1) It implies that the prayer for power to do the miracle had been alrcAdy offered up and RlrcRdy heRrd. (2) It implies that there WAB at a.II times the most perfect con…
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high priest the.t same year, ee.id unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nnd do not reflect thnt it ls expedient for ue the.t one mnn should die for the people, and that tbe wholo nation perish not." 1. This Uaiaphas was a Sadducee, and hold tho office of high priest from 26 till 36 of our era, and therefore during that m…
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J. LIGHT IB HERE OABT UPON THE OHARACTER OF THE FAMILY AT DF:TRANY, ~-lrn1 m:inncr of people must those h1we been whom Jesus loved I The narrative gives m scwrnl particulars regarding tho sisters, so that we can appreciate tho affectionate t<>mper of both-the eager and prRctioal natnre of Martha, Rnd the more contem…
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l\uthority. God'A omnipotence alone can create life, and alone can restore life when death has asserted its power and has done its work. 4. The awakening from death summons to an endless life of activity and holy service. Whilst the boors of slumber are hours of repose, tho daylight which arouses the sleepers calls to …
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were intended not only for the aesue.goment of human sorrow, but for tho eRtiefying of b11man aspirations. He drew the attention e.way from the great work to the greater Worker. In him WRB life; e.nd by bis inoa.rnation e.nd sacrifice he brought the life of God to this world of sin and death. 11. THE LIFE OF CHRIBT…
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with her In her bitter sorrow. 2. The help of Jesus in her trouble--help bestowed rendily and graciously, help taking a Conn miracnlous and glorious. 3. The encourage- ment of the Saviour in her own spiritual life. His companionship became the means of strengthening her beautiful faith, and intensifying her ardent love…
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how oan we suffer for hie sake when unnoticed, unsupported 1 and alone? " 'l'hle way of thinking o\'erloc•ka Christ's spiritual presence. In reality, they who suffer /or him " sutler with him." V. ANOTHER BA VB, " IF, Loan, THOU HADST BBEN BEBE, THEN 'l'BY WORK &NTRUBTED TD MY HANDS WOULD HAVE PROSPERED." There are t…
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Had Jesus been a mere teacher, he would not have excited the enmity which, as a matter of fact, encountered him. But he wrought mighty works, and by their means not only excited interest among the people, but acquired influence over them. That this influence might be used to the detriment of the religious leaders of th…
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morn! mimcles which from the throne or hie glory be bas b11m working throuah 0 the long Rges of the Christillll diepeneation.-T. Yer. 48.-SelfishMse blind& men to righteousness. It ta &ometimes brought., BB Bn Rrgument Rge.inet man's intuitive perception of right, that there are always to be found those who net sp…
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Vera. 49-52.-71ie counsel •f Oaiaphas. We have here recorded the witness of the onrthly to tho heavenly High PrieRt, of human guile to superhuman innocence and gooduoss, of worldly policy to disinterested benevolence, of perRnnal, se ]fish ambition to Divine nn<l nrdent love. The Sanhedrin ns a whole had testified to t…
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fur t-hRt. refusRl they !!Uffered the most terrible diAAsten. But their fall ms the rise of the Gi>nt.ilee, and tbe time is yet to come wbPn the Jews ehi\11 ho gi\thered In. 3. '!'hat JeBus slwuld die for the spiritual brMI. "Not for that nation only." To this con- ~eption CRiBpha.s could not rise; but St.. John, by Di…
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but they sh!Lll awake to weep no more. Laz11rua left bis grave 11nd his grave-clothes to BBsume them again; but they shall for ever leave the abode and garments of mortality and enter life eternal.-B. T, Vel'B. 16, 21.-Good '" a.pparen.t evi1. Notice-- I. THAT ALL THE MOVEMENTS OF CHRIST ON EABTII HAD AN IMMEDIATE …
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U1e highest purpoae. His absence from Bethany served the interest of faith far better than his presence would have done. This implies: (1) That the death of Lazarus could scarcely take plar-B in the immediate presence of Jesus. This is implied in what Jesus said to his disciples, and in what the sisters said to Jesu…
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eto. In her faith God WR8 the gre11t som'Ce of supreme anct umvet~al powl'r nnd {nvoul', and the intercession of Christ with him WBS all-prevailing 11nd coextensive with tho J'O"'er of God, and ever pl'lll!ellt and ave.iil1ble. Even now it Wl\8 not too late. (8) Faith in t~ ffffGt r e w ~ Th11t all the dead shall ri…
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her faith stretched forth ; and here J esns meets her. "I am the Resurrection." But, aa ueua.l, he elope not on the surface with the effect, but Icade faith down to tho mmee, "And the Life." 'fhie ie complete, and faith is in the light. (2) All being all this hilm- 1e7/, "I am," etc. Not "I can raise the dead," but "I …
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grntHude. There was II VRst difference between this meeting and the last. One of the members of the family had pnssed away. Lazarus wa,i in his grave, but now there iH no talk of him. Grief for him is for the time lost in the joy of the Ma.!!ter's arrival. (8) 'l.'/1e MaRter's invitation. "Calleth for thee." He will…
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Ver. 85.-Tlie Saviour's tears. "Jesus wept." Who wept? Jeaue, the Son of God, the et.ernal Word, who was in the beginning with God, and who was God I What made him weep who is the Delight of heaven, and ever sets its golden harps to the tune of happiness and joy? What could bring tears into the eyes of him who wipes…
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wing of his friendship, and there taeted of the sweets of human kindness in an hostile world ; these reminiscences now crowded his memory, filled his heart with sorrow, and hie eyce with tears. 8. It Wall most intense. II it had been only of a short duration, this wne amply made up in depth, breadth, and intensity, J…
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Jl'!lm m,ulrl do eomet-hing to meet her oe.ee, ,md, though her hopes were v&gue, they W!'re nourishl'd by hie own words ; but now her fee.rR preve.lled Ag&inet her hopee. Her faith gR"e we.y hcfore the exigencies of sense. She drellded the remov&l of the etone I\Dd t.he evider.ces of corruption. She oould not bee.r t…
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