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Ask a QuestionOr has another nation known you besides Israel? Or what tribes have so believed the covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
perhaps you would have said to me, "I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into Hades, neither did I ever ascend into heaven.'
And as for her telling you that she brought him up with much care, that was the period of residence in Jerusalem.
"As for your hearing a voice that spoke, coming not from the eagle's heads but from the midst of its body, this is the interpretation:
But as for you, wait here seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you." Then he left me.
and whenever his voice issued from his mouth, all who heard his voice melted as wax melts when it feels the fire.
but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with an uplifted arm, and will strike Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all its land.
You shall be put to shame when your sins come out before others, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers on that day.
but at the same time he enthroned the mind among the senses as a sacred governor over them all.
Two courses were open to this mother, that of religion, and that of preserving her seven sons for a time, as the tyrant had promised.
How great and how many torments the mother then suffered as her sons were tortured on the wheel and with the hot irons!
Consider this also: If this woman, though a mother, had been fainthearted, she would have mourned over them and perhaps spoken as follows:
They knew also that those who die for the sake of God live to God, as do Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the patriarchs.
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,
Go to the flock, and get me two choice kids, so that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he likes;
Only on this condition will we consent to you: that you will become as we are and every male among you be circumcised.
Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, otherwise we will be laughed at; you see, I sent this kid, and you could not find her."
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.