| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: fallen from that rock. But if it be the Princess of Heaven, then
the bullet will pass through her or turn aside and she will take
no harm, though whether Macumazahn will take any harm is more
than I can say."
Now when they heard this many remained silent, but some of the
peace party began to clamour that I should be ordered to shoot at
the apparition. At length Cetewayo seemed to give way to this
pressure. I say seemed, because I think he wished to give way.
Whether or not a spirit stood before him, he knew no more than
the rest, but he did know that unless the vision were proved to
be mortal he would be driven into war with the English.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: LEV 6:26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy
place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
LEV 6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and
when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou
shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.
LEV 6:28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken:
and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and
rinsed in water.
LEV 6:29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most
holy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: ways and means than God has commanded. For that would not be receiving
from God, hut seeking of ourselves.
Let every one, then, see to it that he esteem this commandment great
and high above all things, and do not regard it as a joke. Ask and
examine your heart diligently, and you will find whether it cleaves to
God alone or not. If you have a heart that can expect of Him nothing
but what is good, especially in want and distress, and that, moreover
renounces and forsakes everything that is not God, then you have the
only true God. If on the contrary, it cleaves to anything else, of
which it expects more good and help than of God, and does not take
refuge in Him, but in adversity flees from Him, then you have an idol,
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