{"query": "Galileo Before the Inquisition", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ef285ee8d9ad", "title": "Galileo Before the Inquisition", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Astronomer whose telescope shows what doctrine had ruled out; argues Copernicus publicly; tried by the Inquisition; publicly recants under threat; spends the rest of his life under house arrest, conti"}, {"id": "card_n_4f062674a2e5", "title": "Psalm 68 — Psalm 68", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts"}, {"id": "card_n_ed8a06e8e6d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_019: For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all things; not that Wisdom which is altogether equal and coeternal unto Thee, our God, His Father, and by Whom all things were cr"}, {"id": "card_n_a7302e4834d8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_009: And, lo!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And, lo! my infancy died long since, and I live. But Thou, Lord, who for ever livest, and in whom nothing dies: for before the foundation of the worlds, and before all that can be called \"before,\" Tho"}, {"id": "card_n_a6d2fa25ebc4", "title": "Nehemiah the Wall-Builder", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hears that Jerusalems walls are broken; weeps, fasts, prays, and asks the king; arrives, surveys at night, organizes by household; works with sword in one hand and trowel in the other; refuses to come"}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_5acc7b8f7578", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_003: I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would lay open before my God that nine-and-twentieth year of mine age. There had then come to Carthage a certain Bishop of the Manichees, Faustus by name, a great snare of the Devil, and many were e"}, {"id": "card_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_43ce6f5292a1", "title": "The Meal Before the Mission", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThree words. No agenda attached, no performance required first. The disciples had just worked through the night, failed, then succeeded at someone else's directi"}, {"id": "card_n_79438d46108b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_040: And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease thirst for more than they can contain, and say, \"what did God befo"}, {"id": "card_n_a043cefb928d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §110: So I saw in my dream that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "So I saw in my dream that he made haste and went forward, that if possible he might get lodging there. Now, before he had gone far, he entered into a very narrow passage, which was about a furlong off"}, {"id": "card_n_37491db316ef", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_04: “My Son!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son! walk before Me in truth, and in the simplicity of thy heart seek Me continually. He who walketh before Me in the truth shall be safe from evil assaults, and the truth shall deliver him from t"}, {"id": "card_n_f175418ead13", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth? For if (say they) He were unemployed and wrought not, why does He not also henceforth, an"}, {"id": "card_n_708e78e20648", "title": "Psalm 96 — Psalm 96", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the"}, {"id": "card_n_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_a319c7aa177c", "title": "Easton: Nazarite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Num. 6:2-21. The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there "}, {"id": "card_n_5333331bac11", "title": "Psalm 72 — Psalm 72", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<By Solomon.>> God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. The mountains shall bring prosperity to "}, {"id": "card_n_b42234543200", "title": "Easton: Ephraim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Double fruitfulness (“for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction”). The second son of Joseph, born in Egypt (Gen. 41:52; 46:20). 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