{"query": "Demas Who Loved This World", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c68d96ab05ef", "title": "Demas Who Loved This World", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fellow worker named in earlier letters; in the last letter, Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica.\n\nFailure mode: Slow drift; the world's love wins"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_timothy_4_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 4:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Timothy 4:9 — Here are divers particular matters which Paul mentions to Timothy, now at the closing of the epistle. 1. He bids him hasten to him, if possible (Ti2 4:9): So thy diligence to come s"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_john_15_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on John 15:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On John 15:9 — Christ, who is love itself, is here discoursing concerning love, a fourfold love.\nI. Concerning the Father's love to him; and concerning this he here tells us, 1. That the Father did lo"}, {"id": "card_n_f6ebc90ccbaf", "title": "1 John 4", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\n2. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who"}, {"id": "card_n_d4e566bec511", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_014: This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience co...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience condemns itself, if he love not him that loves him again, or love not again him that loves him, looking for nothing from his "}, {"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. 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So he said, These two lads are figures: Passion, of the men of this world; and Patience, of the men of that wh"}, {"id": "card_n_3ec8f41470c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_003: Are griefs then too loved?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Are griefs then too loved? Verily all desire joy. Or whereas no man likes to be miserable, is he yet pleased to be merciful? which because it cannot be without passion, for this reason alone are passi"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2f3ff4911", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_021: For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; weeping the death of Dido for love to Aeneas, but weeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, O God. Thou light of "}, {"id": "card_n_b997172664bf", "title": "Psalm 24 — Psalm 24", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. Who may ascend to Yahweh's "}, {"id": "card_n_a1e50bac9949", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §271: By this time By-ends and his companions were come again within sight, and they, at the ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "By this time By-ends and his companions were come again within sight, and they, at the first beck, went over to Demas. Now, whether they fell into the pit by looking over the brink thereof, or whether"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_29_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 29:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 29:1 — In this psalm we have,\nI. A demand of the homage of the great men of the earth to be paid to the great God. Every clap of thunder David interpreted as a call to himself and other prin"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}, {"id": "card_n_54e3f98be926", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §218: Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs go out of the wor"}, {"id": "card_n_f9c6185797cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_012: Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general go"}, {"id": "card_n_6ea872a76a64", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_026: Such things was I speaking, and even if not in this very manner, and these sa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Such things was I speaking, and even if not in this very manner, and these same words, yet, Lord, Thou knowest that in that day when we were speaking of these things, and this world with all its delig"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_revelation_21_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Revelation 21:1 — We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state.\nI. 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