| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: VERSE 2. But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed
of the father.
THE Apostle had apparently finished his discourse on justification when this
illustration of the youthful heir occurred to him. He throws it in for good
measure. He knows that plain people are sooner impressed by an apt
illustration than by learned discussion.
"I want to give you another illustration from everyday life," he writes to the
Galatians. "As long as an heir is under age he is treated very much like a
servant. He is not permitted to order his own affairs. He is kept under
constant surveillance. Such discipline is good for him, otherwise he would
waste his inheritance in no time. This discipline, however, is not to last
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: plain to the huntsman by various signs--the quivering of their bodies
backwards and forwards, sterns and all; the ardour meaning business;
the rush and emulaton; the hurry-scurry to be first; the patient
following-up of the whole pack; at one moment massed together, and at
another separated; and once again the steady onward rush. At last they
have reached the hare's form, and are in the act to spring upon her.
But she on a sudden will start up and bring about her ears the barking
clamour of the whole pack as she makes off full speed. Then as the
chase grows hot, the view halloo! of the huntsman may be heard: "So
ho, good hounds! that's she! cleverly now, good hounds! so ho, good
hounds!"[26] And so, wrapping his cloak[27] about his left arm, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: aedificia vicosque habebant; sed tantae multitudinis adventu perterriti ex
iis aedificiis quae trans flumen habuerant demigraverant, et cis Rhenum
dispositis praesidiis Germanos transire prohibebant. Illi omnia experti,
cum neque vi contendere propter inopiam navium neque clam transire propter
custodias Menapiorum possent, reverti se in suas sedes regiones
simulaverunt et tridui viam progressi rursus reverterunt atque omni hoc
itinere una nocte equitatu confecto inscios inopinantes Menapios
oppresserunt, qui de Germanorum discessu per exploratores certiores facti
sine metu trans Rhenum in suos vicos remigraverant. His interfectis
navibus eorum occupatis, prius quam ea pars Menapiorum quae citra Rhenum
erat certior fieret, flumen transierunt atque omnibus eorum aedificiis
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