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Updated: May 28, 2025
And so I think that Matthew's arrangement of this pair of companion pictures is to be preferred to that which we find in Luke, who localises the incident in a different part of our Lord's ministry, and on a different occasion. I deal now only with the first of these two contrasted pictures, and consider the lightly-made vow, and Christ's sobering treatment of it. I. The too lightly uttered vow.
Chenille shawls, as every woman knows, must be handled carefully or the lightly-made fringe will come asunder; for the kind of cord of floss silk is generally made upon a single thread, which will break with the slightest strain. By some means the shawl in question had accidentally become entangled or perhaps been strained by the sudden uplifting of the arm of the wearer.
The earlier part of this chapter shows that the people, by their representatives, responded with alacrity which to Joshua seemed too eager to his charge, and enumerated with too facile tongues God's deliverances and benefits. His ear must have caught some tones of levity, if not of insincerity, in the lightly-made vow.
She walked through the dark Stone Parlour outside, seeing still the firmly-knit lightly-made figure boyish, middle-sized, yet never insignificant the tumbled waves of fair hair, the eyes so keenly blue, the face with its sharp mocking lines, its powers of sudden charm. Then self-reproach leapt, and possessed her.
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