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The Khalif exclaimed, 'God bless thee, O Aslan! and they all dismounted and sat on chairs. Then the Khalif bade bring the smiter of the ball before him and said to him, 'Who moved thee to do this thing and art thou friend or foe? Quoth he, 'I am a foe and it was my purpose to kill thee. 'And wherefore? asked the Khalif.
Or, again, he that is smitten on the one cheek is not to turn the other to the smiter, but to hand the offender over to the law; nor are the commands relative to indifference as to the morrow and a neglect of ordinary prudence to be taken as they stand; nor yet the warnings against praying in public; nor can the parables, any one of them, be interpreted strictly with advantage to human welfare, except perhaps that of the Good Samaritan; nor the Sermon on the Mount, save in such passages as were already the common property of mankind before the coming of Christ.
Michael, smiter of Satan and Captain of the Chivalry of God, with all the ardour of the seraphs and the flaming patience of the saints, we will have this cigarette business stopped. Where has all the tradition of the great religious literatures gone to that a man should come on such a bathos with such a bump?
One cheek being smitten, what should you do? 'Shall I show you, General? cried a quick little subaltern. 'The order, my children, as received a fortnight since from our old Wien, commands you to offer the other cheek to the smiter. 'So that a proper balance may be restored to both sides of the face, General Pierson appended. 'And mark me, he resumed.
And of the male hippopotamus he hath opened the mouth, and he hath speared it, and he hath mounted upon its back." Then said Thoth to Ra, "Horus shall be called 'Winged Disk, Great God, Smiter of the enemies in the town of Heben' from this day forward, and he shall be called 'He who standeth on the back' and 'prophet of this god, from this day forward."
And Hugh Mifflin, methinks, has forgotten his Quaker blood. How well he talks! And hear he quotes from the Farmers' letters. I thought the Friends were resolved not to bear arms." "Do they always turn the other cheek to the smiter?" asked someone, and a laugh followed. In the upper hall Primrose stood by the end window, listening and wondering. Patty found her there, large-eyed.
'Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? for, 'Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin he cannot sin, for he is born of God. I did indeed make a sore stumble; so also did David, and natheless he was a man after God's own heart. What has man to do with my fault? He has entered into judgment with me, and I have gladly borne the hand of the smiter." "Gladly, father?"
Sir Frederick Roberts had been hurried forward on Cabul charged with the duty of avenging the perpetration of a foul and treacherous crime, 'which had brought indelible disgrace upon the Afghan nation. The scriptural injunction to turn the other cheek to the smiter has not yet become a canon of international law or practice; and the anti-climax to an expedition engaged in with so stern a purpose, of a nominal disarmament and a petty fine never exacted, is self-evident.
Verse. 17, "He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death." If a Jew smote his neighbor, the law merely smote him in return; but if the blow was given to a parent, it struck the smiter dead. The parental relation is the centre of human society. God guards it with peculiar care. To violate that, is to violate all.
Kasyapa also saw his son, that ranger of the skies, of divine form, possessed of great splendour, and energy and strength, and endued with the speed of the wind or the mind, huge as a mountain peak, a ready smiter like the curse of a Brahmana, inconceivable, indescribable, frightful to all creatures, possessed of great prowess, terrible, of the splendour of Agni himself, and incapable of being overcome by the deities, Danavas, and invincible Rakshasas, capable of splitting mountain summits and sucking the ocean itself and destroying the three worlds, fierce, and looking like Yama himself.
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