{"query": "Cohesion and fracture — the mechanism of holding and breakin", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_6ca595e0a722", "title": "Cohesion and fracture — the mechanism of holding and breaking", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Some things hold together when every logic says they should break apart; some break apart\nwhen it seems they should hold. Matt saw it in peoples and in words — and there IS an underlying\nmechanism, th"}, {"id": "card_n_497deb4deadf", "title": "Easton: Zoan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Old Egypt. Sant= “stronghold,” the modern San). A city on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, called by the Greeks Tanis. It was built seven years after Hebron in Palestine (Num. 13:22). This great and i"}, {"id": "card_n_06e412fd6877", "title": "Easton: Micah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the prophet exercised his office in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. If we reckon from the begi"}, {"id": "card_n_b7fe5d1e8b9d", "title": "Hebrews 9", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.\n2. For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread,"}, {"id": "card_n_c6f329082959", "title": "Easton: Pool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper"}, {"id": "card_n_4386d44613c7", "title": "Easton: Millennium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this mil"}, {"id": "card_n_e63a89413092", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_018: And yet (as Thy handmaid told me her son) there had crept upon her a love of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet (as Thy handmaid told me her son) there had crept upon her a love of wine. For when (as the manner was) she, as though a sober maiden, was bidden by her parents to draw wine out of the hogshed"}, {"id": "card_n_aefd11433a6f", "title": "Easton: Mordecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been alleged that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah, and hence that he must have been at least one hundred and twenty-nine years old in the "}, {"id": "card_n_5a2855b97d72", "title": "Easton: Deputy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In 1 Kings 22:47, means a prefect; one set over others. The same Hebrew word is rendered “officer;” i.e., chief of the commissariat appointed by Solomon (1 Kings 4:5, etc.). In Esther 8:9; 9:3 (R.V., "}, {"id": "card_n_e8b47f718fb7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_015: But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it neither to me, nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey, and followed me as far as the sea. But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_b8858c409f6f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_009: I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, whic"}, {"id": "card_n_e9f30a8f7e1f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_009: For when I hear any Christian brother ignorant of these things, and mistaken ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when I hear any Christian brother ignorant of these things, and mistaken on them, I can patiently behold such a man holding his opinion; nor do I see that any ignorance as to the position or chara"}, {"id": "card_n_69ff6a6c4b75", "title": "Easton: Asher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid (Gen. 30:13). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (35:26; 46:17; Ex. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_0acab3e8e1d7", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §251: SAVE-ALL.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "SAVE-ALL. That is bad, but we read of some that are righteous overmuch; and such men's rigidness prevails with them to judge and condemn all but themselves. But, I pray, what, and how many, were the t"}, {"id": "card_n_45c323384ad4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_005: And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill, and Thy just judgment of our suffering ill. But I was not able clearly to discern it. So then endeavouring t"}, {"id": "card_n_08e7380bc788", "title": "Easton: Basin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or Bason. (1.) A trough or laver (Heb. aggan’) for washing (Ex. 24:6); rendered also “goblet” (Cant. 7:2) and “cups” (Isa. 22:24). (2.) A covered dish or urn (Heb. k’for) among the vessels of the temp"}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}, {"id": "card_n_339e73de8bc6", "title": "2 Timothy 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.\n2. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,\n3. w"}, {"id": "card_n_f6f744d4ef16", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xiii: At thy first encounter with any one, say presently to thyself: This man, what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At thy first encounter with any one, say presently to thyself: This man, what are his opinions concerning that which is good or evil? as concerning pain, pleasure, and the causes of both; concerning h"}, {"id": "card_n_38bdc502efb4", "title": "Easton: Rainbow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Caused by the reflection and refraction of the rays of the sun shining on falling rain. It was appointed as a witness of the divine faithfulness (Gen. 9:12-17). It existed indeed before, but it was th"}]}