{"query": "A parable — Witness two or three", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_556191d135e7", "title": "A parable — Witness two or three", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man had a clear insight at midnight. He wrote it down and brought it to his friend at dawn. The friend nodded but asked questions. By noon he was less sure. He brought it to a second friend, who ask"}, {"id": "card_n_41c5287a97b2", "title": "A parable — Argue brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two brothers built a wall together. One laid the stones to the left, the other to the right, and each thought the other was crooked. They never asked the third brother — the one who could see both sid"}, {"id": "card_n_6589cacd0acb", "title": "A parable — Replication", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Twenty men reported seeing a vision in the desert. The elders sent them out again, alone, to the same place. Only seven saw the vision twice. The other thirteen had seen the heat shimmer, the trick of"}, {"id": "card_n_1c81307d0e25", "title": "A parable — Friendship break", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two men walked together for many years. One day one of them stepped on the other's foot. They argued; then they walked apart. Each told the story to those who would listen, and the story grew. By the "}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_ba0392c94b0e", "title": "A parable — Forgive", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Peter asked: how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? The answer was: I say not unto thee, until seven times: but until seventy times seven. The arithmetic was a"}, {"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_n_ec6dc6d5b92f", "title": "A parable — Regression mean", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was called lucky, for the dice fell well for him three nights in a row. He believed it, and bet his house on the fourth. The dice did not know they had favored him, and on the fourth night they "}, {"id": "card_n_8b6256f0ebba", "title": "A parable — Decision two roads", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the fork of two roads with no map. He sat down to think and a thousand reasons came, half for each road. After many hours he saw he was no closer to choosing. Then he remembered the thi"}, {"id": "card_n_b031c4b9ef92", "title": "A parable — Anger slow", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A wise man taught: be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. The young men reversed the order each day, and each day they were sorry. The old man said nothing about it. He had learned the order "}, {"id": "card_n_7195b6d9f8f7", "title": "A parable — Generosity giving", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The rich men cast much money into the treasury, and the widow cast in two mites — which is a farthing. The Lord said: she has cast in more than they all. They gave of their abundance; she gave of her "}, {"id": "card_n_e518ae8c8e4c", "title": "A parable — Doubt silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist cried: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cried it day and night, and there was no answer. He wrote the cry down anyway. Centuries later the Son of God said the same words from"}, {"id": "card_n_552c2965c6bb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_016: So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber"}, {"id": "card_n_61bf8457ea27", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come. The strength had be"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_70e9d4c2ce55", "title": "A parable — Legacy seed", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A seed in the farmer's hand was tight and small. It was sure of its smallness. It thought it would remain a seed forever. The farmer dropped it into the earth and it disappeared. The seed never saw th"}, {"id": "card_n_1140c9fe707a", "title": "A parable — Disability strength", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A potter set down two vessels: one whole, one cracked. The whole carried water without leaking; the cracked one watered the path it walked. By summer the path beside the cracked vessel was lined with "}, {"id": "card_n_0f0d0bd1e226", "title": "A parable — Money giving b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A farmer had two pockets. From the first he gave; into the second he stored. The first pocket emptied; the second filled. He could not understand why the first felt warmer than the second, but it did."}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_e9423db7082b", "title": "A parable — Competition brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two disciples ran toward the same tomb. One arrived first but waited; the other arrived later and went in. The first did not boast of the running; the second did not boast of the entering. Years later"}]}