{"query": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows what force cann", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f69fb7c82462", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows what force cannot", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are universal patterns — natural law among them: the same moral precepts recur\nacross Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, and Hebrew sources (C.S. Lewis catalogued them as\n'the Tao'; Paul call"}, {"id": "card_c_0bcd218c072d", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows ↔ Cohesion and fracture — the mechanism of hol", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "the deepest social universal, sealed on the cohesion card, is this: movements grow by FORCE and shatter under a disrupting force — persecution breaks a network. Christianity runs counter to it  — a co"}, {"id": "card_c_43b05a8de4f9", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows ↔ Grimm's Law — sound change without exception", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "By the assay's own ethos (Verner's Law: the exception reveals a deeper rule), this counter-pattern points to the deeper binding already sealed on the recycling card  — a concord the card itself states"}, {"id": "card_c_a2936d7239ae", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows ↔ Recycling — nothing is lost, the parts are r", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "this counter-pattern points to the deeper binding already sealed on the recycling card — the grain of wheat that must fall and die to bear much fruit (John 12:24)  — a concord the card itself states; "}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_c_71226de5add4", "title": "The counter-pattern is the branch that bears fruit by dying", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Christianity grows under persecution — the pattern that runs counter to every law of movements. The grain of wheat that falls and dies bears much fruit (John 12:24); the branch that is pruned bears mo"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_21_29", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:29", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 21:29 — Here is, 1. The presumption and impudence of a wicked man: He hardens his face - brazens it, that he may not blush - steels it, that he may not tremble when he commits the greatest"}, {"id": "card_c_839e6474fd61", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows ↔ John 15", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "the grain of wheat that must fall and die to bear much fruit (John 12:24), the binding that comes from OUTSIDE the system (John 15)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_deuteronomy_10_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 10:12 — Here is a most pathetic exhortation to obedience, inferred from the premises, and urged with very powerful arguments and a great deal of persuasive rhetoric. Moses brings it in "}, {"id": "card_n_2cac7e4c49d7", "title": "Easton: Persecution", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers of God among the Jews in the days of Ahab, when that king, at the instiga"}, {"id": "card_n_cbcebb1c3afb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_028: But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect? Where in the end do we search, but in the memory itself? and there, if one thing be perchan"}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_0f7b2a40aed3", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxii: What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply themselves unto: what do they love, and what do they hate for? Fancy to thyself the estate of their souls openly to be seen"}, {"id": "card_n_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven, or measuring the distances"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_kings_7_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 7:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Kings 7:1 — Here, I. Elisha foretels that, notwithstanding the great straits to which the city of Samaria is reduced, yet within twenty-four hours they shall have plenty, Kg2 7:1. The king of Isr"}, {"id": "card_c_9a26b4be2e33", "title": "Death as the mechanism of growth — the grain of wheat", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The counter-pattern is the recycling/resurrection pattern in history: what dies bears much fruit."}, {"id": "card_n_b026825cd2d9", "title": "Easton: Miracle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God, operating without the use of means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authent"}, {"id": "card_n_ae9527cfe8e1", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_vi: Such there be, who when they have done a good turn to any, are ready to set t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Such there be, who when they have done a good turn to any, are ready to set them on the score for it, and to require retaliation. Others there be, who though they stand not upon retaliation, to requir"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_exodus_6_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Exodus 6:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Exodus 6:1 — Here, I. God silences Moses's complaints with the assurance of success in this negotiation, repeating the promise made him in Exo 3:20, After that, he will let you go. When Moses was a"}, {"id": "card_n_545c586d5e16", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_04_20: Elisha ben Abuyah said: He who learns when a child, to what is he compared?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Elisha ben Abuyah said: He who learns when a child, to what is he compared? To ink written upon a new writing sheet. And he who learns when an old man, to what is he compared? To ink written on a rubb"}]}