{"query": "A parable — Worry children", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5335d3c35271", "title": "A parable — Worry children", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mother watched her child run toward the road and called him back a thousand times. By the thousandth call her voice was tired and her child no longer turned. A wise woman sat beside her and said, 'Y"}, {"id": "card_n_f1c2cf8a54d5", "title": "A parable — Worry what if", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman lay awake and ran every path her child might walk for a thousand miles. By morning she had aged a year, and the child had walked one mile, and the road had been gentle. She kissed him goodbye "}, {"id": "card_n_feeec4a61417", "title": "Psalm 78 — Psalm 78", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A contemplation by Asaph.>> Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, Which we have heard and known, "}, {"id": "card_n_f412f364f873", "title": "Easton: Child", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture. Thus Joseph is called a child at the time when he was probably about sixteen years of age (Gen. 37:3); and Benjamin is so called when he wa"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ephesians_6_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ephesians 6:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ephesians 6:1 — Here we have further directions concerning relative duties, in which the apostle is very particular.\nI. The duty of children to their parents. Come, you children, hearken to me, I w"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_17_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 17:6 — They are so, that is, they should be so, and, if they conduct themselves worthily, they are so. 1. 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Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_15_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 15:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 15:11 — We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how read"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_18_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 18:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 18:15 — This passage of story we had both in Matthew and Mark; it very fitly follows here after the story of the publican, as a confirmation of the truth which was to be illustrated by that pa"}, {"id": "card_src_book_473", "title": "Stories to Tell to Children — Sara Cone Bryant", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stories to Tell to Children, by Sara Cone Bryant. 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And here he gives them both diss"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_mark_10_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on Mark 10:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Mark 10:13 — It is looked upon as the indication of a kind and tender disposition to take notice of little children, and this was remarkable in our Lord Jesus, which is an encouragement not only to"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_4_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 4:1 — Here we have,\nI. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Pro 4:1, Pro 4:2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_leviticus_18_19", "title": "Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Leviticus 18:19 — Here is, I. 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Tomorrow does its own work.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_hosea_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Hosea 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Hosea 3:1 — Some think that this chapter refers to Judah, the two tribes, as the adulteress the prophet married (Hos 1:3) represented the ten tribes; for this was not to be divorced, as the ten tri"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_29_17", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:17", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 29:17 — Note, 1. It is a very happy thing when children prove the comfort of their parents. Good children are so; they give them rest, make them easy, and free from the many cares they hav"}, {"id": "card_src_book_313", "title": "Children of the Night — Edwin Arlington Robinson", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Children of the Night, by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Subjects: Poetry. 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