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Harmony of the Law - Volume 4 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
10. And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp: 10.
Josephus: The Complete Works by Josephus, Flavius (37- c. 100)
HOW A GREAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE EARNESTLY ENDEAVORED TO DESERT TO THE ROMANS; AS ALSO WHAT INTOLERABLE THINGS THOSE THAT STAID BEHIND SUFFERED BY FAMINE, AND THE SAD CONSEQUENCES THEREOF.
Lenten Meditation by Pasko, Mark
Day 11- Lay Ministry & Spiritual Gift Development: Sharing the Burden: Read Exodus 18:13-27 Moses tried to carry by himself the full weight of the burden of the 600,000 adult Hebrews who left Egypt! Does this sound like a prescription for burnout? Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, certainly thought so and gave him advice that is wise and empowering to this day: delegation.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah, Volume II by Bennett, William H. (1855-1920)
CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS xxv. 15-38. "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."—Jer. xxv. 31. As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and activity extend beyond the family and the household, so Israel in its childhood thought of Jehovah as exclusively concerned with itself.
Lilith by MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
chapter xxxviii TO THE HOUSE OF BITTERNESS IN the morning we set out, and made for the forest as fast as we could. I rode Lona's horse, and carried her body. I would take it to her father: he would give it a couch in the chamber of his dead! or, if he would not, seeing she had not come of herself, I would watch it in the desert until it mouldered away! But I believed he would,…
Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?’—ESTHER iv.
Golden Legend, vol. 7 by Voragine, Jacobus de (1230-1298)
Here followeth of S. Simeon. S. Simeon was born in Antioch and was much virtuous, and from the time that he was in his mother’s belly he was chosen of God, and when he was twelve years old he kept his father’s sheep.
Treasury of Sacred Song by Palgrave, Francis Turner (1824-1897)
A rock there is whose homely front 200 A saint, to few but God well known 151 A wreathed garland of deserved praise 48 Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide 247 Again, O Lord, I ope my eyes 242 Ah! ev'ry day mid bring a while 267 Ah! give me, Lord, the single eye 170 Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry 108 Alas, my God, that we should be 136 Alas!…
Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers by Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471)
Concerning Arnold of “Schoonhoven” (that is, “Bellae Curiae"), a devout Clerk (1) IN the days when the Church at Deventer flourished through the presence there of that Reverend Father Florentius, and many scholars came to that city from divers regions desiring to be taught, there came also from the country of Holland a youth whose natural disposition was good,…
Gospel In Brief by Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910)
Man, the son of God, is weak in the flesh but free in the spirit. 'OUR FATHER' THE birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph. But before they began to live as man and wife it appeared that Mary was pregnant.