| 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: oversharp criticism might alienate them altogether. He therefore changes
the tone of his voice and speaks kindly to them.
VERSE 12. Be as I am; for I am as ye are.
Up to this point Paul has been occupied with the doctrinal aspect of the
apostasy of the Galatians. He did not conceal his disappointment at their
lack of stability. He had rebuked them. He had called them fools, crucifiers
of Christ, etc. Now that the more important part of his Epistle has been
finished, he realizes that he has handled the Galatians too roughly.
Anxious lest he should do more harm than good, he is careful to let them
see that his criticism proceeds from affection and a true apostolic concern
for their welfare. He is eager to mitigate his sharp words with gentle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: of Indemnity, and a man of seventy, feeling himself privileged to say
hard things to his grand-niece, on whom he doted, in order to mollify
the bitter tone of the discussion now exclaimed:
"Do not tease my poor little Emilie; don't you see she is waiting till
the Duc de Bordeaux comes of age!"
The old man's pleasantry was received with general laughter.
"Take care I don't marry you, old fool!" replied the young girl, whose
last words were happily drowned in the noise.
"My dear children," said Madame de Fontaine, to soften this saucy
retort, "Emilie, like you, will take no advice but her mother's."
"Bless me! I shall take no advice but my own in a matter which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: There were several for whom, in allusion perhaps to his complexion,
he was "the Pink 'Un." Once, once only by good luck, he had,
coinciding comically, quite miraculously, with another person also
near to her, been "Mudge." Yes, whatever he was, it was a part of
his happiness--whatever he was and probably whatever he wasn't.
And his happiness was a part--it became so little by little--of
something that, almost from the first of her being at Cocker's, had
been deeply with the girl.
CHAPTER V
This was neither more nor less than the queer extension of her
experience, the double life that, in the cage, she grew at last to
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