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Page 59 - In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, (waiting for the moving of the water. 4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole, with whatsoever disease he was holden — margin.) 5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty and eight years in his infirmity.
Page 105 - A beautiful woman pleases the eye; a good woman pleases the heart; the one is a jewel, the other is a treasure.
Page 14 - No other heavenly body is so variable in its movements as the moon. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the moon passing across the face of the sun, and so can only occur at new moon.
Page 14 - ... at new moon. An eclipse of the moon is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow, and so can occur only at full moon.
Page 41 - Mediterranean coast-world, the olive-tree is also the tree of the Bible, of the Old as well as of the New...