| 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: This is the main point of Paul's argument against the Jews: The children of
Abraham are those who believe and not those who are born of Abraham's flesh
and blood. This point Paul drives home with all his might because the Jews
attached saving value to the genealogical fact: "We are the seed and children
of Abraham."
Let us begin with Abraham and learn how this friend of God was justified and
saved. Not because he left his country, his relatives, his father's house;
not because he was circumcised; not because he stood ready to sacrifice his
own son Isaac in whom he had the promise of posterity. Abraham was justified
because he believed. Paul's argumentation runs like this: "Since this is the
unmistakable testimony of Holy Writ, why do you take your stand upon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: friends, and to know that King Gos and his people were
his foes. In sudden anger, provoked by the sight of the
warriors and the knowledge that he was in the power of
the dangerous men of Regos, Bilbil butted his head
against the door of his room and burst it open. Then he
ran to the head of the staircase and saw King Gos
coming up the stairs followed by a long line of his
chief captains and warriors.
The goat lowered his head, trembling with rage and
excitement, and just as the King reached the top stair
the animal dashed forward and butted His Majesty so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: staring with their eyes wide open to keep awake, and yet they
were trying to put on an expression of attention and to pretend
that they understood what I was saying and liked it. 'Well,' I
thought, 'since you like it you shall have it! I'll pay you out;'
so I just gave them those four pages too."
As is usual with ironical people, when he talks nothing in his
face smiles but his eyes and eyebrows. At such times there is no
trace of hatred or spite in his eyes, but a great deal of humour,
and that peculiar fox-like slyness which is only to be noticed in
very observant people. Since I am speaking about his eyes, I
notice another peculiarity in them. When he takes a glass from
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