| 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: your infatuation for the righteousness of the Law by installing the
righteousness of faith before circumcision and the Law ever were ordained."
VERSE 8. Preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall
all nations be blessed.
The Jews misconstrue this passage. They want the term "to bless" to mean "to
praise." They want the passage to read: In thee shall all the nations of the
earth be praised. But this is a perversion of the words of Holy Writ. With
the words "Abraham believed" Paul describes a spiritual Abraham, renewed by
faith and regenerated by the Holy Ghost, that he should be the spiritual
father of many nations. In that way all the Gentiles could be given to him
for an inheritance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: would lead to exaggerated conclusions, if it were carried into the
sociological field without reserve, and without the necessary
balance between the interests and rights of the community and of
individuals. If this idea were taken absolutely, indeed, it would
render legitimate and even obligatory an ultra-Spartan elimination
of all children born abortive or incurably diseased, or anti-
social through their idiotcy or mental insanity.
On the other hand, to recognise that the death penalty may be
legitimate as an extreme and exceptional measure is not to
acknowledge that it is necessary in the normal conditions of
social life. Now it cannot be questioned that in these normal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: At which proud oaks and cedars fall.
There came also into my mind at that time certain verses in praise of a
mean estate and humble mind: they were written by Phineas Fletcher,
an excellent divine, and an excellent angler; and the author of excellent
Piscatory Eclogues, in which you shall see the picture of this good
man's mind: and I wish mine to be like it.
No empty hopes, no courtly fears him fright;
No begging wants his middle fortune bite:
But sweet content exiles both misery and spite.
His certain life, that never can deceive him,
Is full of thousand sweets and rich content
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