{"query": "A parable — Marriage drift", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a9b95338eb36", "title": "A parable — Marriage drift", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two of you are stronger than one; but a threefold cord is not quickly broken. A marriage of two has spent its slack. A marriage with the Maker as the third strand can be pulled and pulled and not part"}, {"id": "card_src_book_24171", "title": "The Wedding Day The Service—The Marriage Certificate—Words of Counsel — J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903 [Editor] Hurst", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Wedding Day The Service—The Marriage Certificate—Words of Counsel, by J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903 [Editor] Hurst. Subjects: Marriage; Marriage -- Gift books; Marriage service. 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He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_c_dc3401b5f23e", "title": "A parable — Strawman ↔ A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_17ba1fbceeda", "title": "A parable — Unconformity", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A scribe wrote the history of a kingdom from the stones in its walls. He thought he had written all of it. But beneath the wall, between two layers of stone, was a missing age — a famine, a fault, a s"}]}