{"query": "Pilgrim's Progress §238: There was an Act made in the days o", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e44d29ee3677", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §238: There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that les...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that lest those of a contrary religion should multiply and grow too strong for him, their males should be thrown into the"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_chronicles_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Chronicles 3:1 — Here is, I. The place where the temple was built. Solomon was neither at liberty to choose nor at a loss to fix the place. It was before determined (Ch1 22:1), which was an ease "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_2_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 2:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 2:1 — The fulness of time was now come, when God would send forth his Son, made of a woman, and made under the law; and it was foretold that he should be born at Bethlehem. Now here we have an"}, {"id": "card_c_a90f80e134b6", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §238: There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that les... references Darius", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Darius (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_25d5165d239d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §238: There was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that les... references Nebuchadnezzar", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nebuchadnezzar (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_53896f8be23c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §166: Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solita...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solitary way; which dangers, though he feared them more before, yet he saw them more clearly now, because the light of "}, {"id": "card_n_d78109298af3", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §395: The talk they had with the Shining Ones was about the glory of the place; who told them...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The talk they had with the Shining Ones was about the glory of the place; who told them that the beauty and glory of it was inexpressible. There, said they, is the Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_acts_19_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Acts 19:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Acts 19:1 — Ephesus was a city of great note in Asia, famous for a temple built there to Diana, which was one of the wonders of the world: thither Paul came to preach the gospel while Apollos was a"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_leviticus_12_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Leviticus 12:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Leviticus 12:1 — The law here pronounces women lying-in ceremonially unclean. The Jews say, \"The law extended even to an abortion, if the child was so formed as that the sex was distinguishable.\" 1"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_chronicles_29_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 29:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Chronicles 29:20 — The temple being cleansed, we have here an account of the good use that was immediately made of it. A solemn assembly was called to meet the king at the temple, the very next d"}, {"id": "card_n_66196645a2a9", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §223: One chanced mockingly, beholding the carriage of the men, to say unto them, What will y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One chanced mockingly, beholding the carriage of the men, to say unto them, What will ye buy? But they, looking gravely upon him, answered, \"We buy the truth.\" At that there was an occasion taken to d"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae644f46786", "title": "Easton: Bread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparati"}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ruth_1_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ruth 1:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ruth 1:1 — The first words give all the date we have of this story. It was in the days when the judges ruled (Rut 1:1), not in those disorderly times when there was no king in Israel; but under whi"}, {"id": "card_n_3ddba3331131", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §31: Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone: but still he end...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone: but still he endeavoured to struggle to that side of the slough that was still further from his own house, and next to the wicket"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_7_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 7:13 — We have here an account of the brass-work about the temple. There was no iron about the temple, though we find David preparing for the temple iron for things of iron, Ch1 29:2. What "}, {"id": "card_n_69ffa7398d2d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §244: Now I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone, for there was one whose nam...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now I saw in my dream, that Christian went not forth alone, for there was one whose name was Hopeful (being made so by the beholding of Christian and Faithful in their words and behaviour, in their su"}, {"id": "card_n_a043cefb928d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §110: So I saw in my dream that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So I saw in my dream that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get lodging there. Now, before he had gone far, he entered into a very narrow passage, which was about a furlong off"}, {"id": "card_n_5e598d228061", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §117: PIETY.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "PIETY. What moved you at first to betake yourself to a pilgrim's life? CHR. I was driven out of my native country by a dreadful sound that was in mine ears: to wit, that unavoidable destruction did at"}]}