{"query": "153 — the counted catch", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8cc93c245790", "title": "153 — the counted catch", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "John 21:11: Simon Peter drew the net to land, \"full of one hundred fifty-three great\nfish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn't torn.\" The number's mathematics sealed:\n153 = 17·18/2 (the 17t"}, {"id": "card_n_9911d47ec7d2", "title": "The triangular counts — 120, 153, 276", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The three precise headcounts of the New Testament are all triangular numbers, sealed:\n120 in the upper room (Acts 1:15) = 15·16/2; 153 fish (John 21:11) = 17·18/2; 276 souls\nsaved from the wreck (Acts"}, {"id": "card_n_e1bb89d871cc", "title": "Numbers in the text and in the world — the honest assay", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Scripture's numbers are load-bearing: dimensions given to be BUILT, counts\nkept as TESTIMONY, spans that gestate and test. Where they meet the physical world, the\nphysical answers — and this constella"}, {"id": "card_n_d1388178b752", "title": "Easton: Robbery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord"}, {"id": "card_n_6415f5139ccd", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §98: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. Gentlemen, whence came you, and whither go you? FORM. and HYP. We were born in the land of Vain-glory, and are going for praise to Mount Zion. CHR. Why came you not in at the gate which standeth "}, {"id": "card_n_eb934acbad16", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §4: May I not write in such a style as this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May I not write in such a style as this? In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end--thy good? Why may it not be done? Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. Yea, dark or bright, if"}, {"id": "card_n_f2203af4d294", "title": "Easton: Parlour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(from the Fr. parler, “to speak”) denotes an “audience chamber,” but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the “summer"}, {"id": "card_n_ccc7cf5e4e48", "title": "Easton: Net", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. The fishing-net was probably constructed after the form of that used by the Egyptians (Isa. 19:8). There were three kinds of nets. (1.) The "}, {"id": "card_n_14a11b44c682", "title": "40 — the number of testing is the number of gestation", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sealed: 40×7 = 280 days — the clinical convention for human gestation, counted the\nway the text counts. The flood's rain, Israel's years, the fasts of Moses, Elijah, and the\nLord's forty days tempted "}, {"id": "card_n_8b0670067058", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians XVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let my spirit be counted as nothing for the sake of the cross, which is a stumbling-block to those that do not believe, but to us salvation and life eternal. “Where is the wise man? where the disputer"}, {"id": "card_n_cc1a489c9c38", "title": "Easton: Benjamin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of my right hand. (1.) The younger son of Jacob by Rachel (Gen. 35:18). His birth took place at Ephrath, on the road between Bethel and Bethlehem, at a short distance from the latter place. His mo"}, {"id": "card_n_b9cbc4c75cf5", "title": "Psalm 10 — Psalm 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. For the wicked boasts of h"}, {"id": "card_n_9762ae853ecb", "title": "Galatians 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?\n2. I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive th"}, {"id": "card_n_9d42516b140c", "title": "Quartz at 32,768 Hz — a power of two on the wrist", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every quartz watch cuts a tuning fork to hum at exactly 2^15 = 32,768 Hz, sealed, and\n32768 / 2^15 = 1: run the signal through fifteen binary flip-flops, each halving the frequency,\nand the last ticks"}, {"id": "card_n_95f0c141e9b0", "title": "Psalm 88 — Psalm 88", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of \"The Suffering of Affliction.\" A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.>> Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried da"}, {"id": "card_n_e5c6211c6d1b", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §323: Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Leviathan's sturdiness Besides, their king is at their whistle. He is never out of hearing; and if at any time they be put to the worst, he, if possible, comes in to help them; and of him it is said, "}, {"id": "card_n_bf1b1d4a5b77", "title": "Phonics — the code beneath reading", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "English is a cipher with a catch: 26 letters carry ~44 phonemes (24 consonant + 20 vowel\nsounds, sealed 24+20=44) spelled ~250 ways, ~4.7 bits per letter (log2 26). The whole difficulty\nis the vowels "}, {"id": "card_n_e738551bd657", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §140: Then he began to go forward; but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would accompa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then he began to go forward; but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence would accompany him down to the foot of the hill. So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they cam"}, {"id": "card_n_1aa522098808", "title": "Ignatius to the Romans IX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Remember in your prayers the church in Syria, which now has God for its shepherd, instead of me. Jesus Christ alone will oversee it, and your love [will also regard it]. But as for me, I am ashamed to"}, {"id": "card_n_e7b1a53ccbdf", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §99: FORM.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FORM. and HYP. They told him, that, as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout; for what they did they had custom for; and could produce, if need were, testimony that would witness it f"}]}