{"query": "Demas Who Loved This World", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c68d96ab05ef", "title": "Demas Who Loved This World", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fellow worker named in earlier letters; in the last letter, Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica.\n\nFailure mode: Slow drift; the world's love wins"}, {"id": "card_n_f6ebc90ccbaf", "title": "1 John 4", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\n2. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who"}, {"id": "card_n_eb823cfbdfd7", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_04_01: Ben Zoma said: Who is wise?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ben Zoma said: Who is wise? He who learns from every man, as it is said: “From all who taught me have I gained understanding” (Psalms 119:99). Who is mighty? He who subdues his [evil] inclination, as "}, {"id": "card_n_d4e566bec511", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_014: This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience co...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience condemns itself, if he love not him that loves him again, or love not again him that loves him, looking for nothing from his "}, {"id": "card_n_780d61508626", "title": "Barnabas XX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz. idolatry, over-confidence, the arro"}, {"id": "card_n_5646250b3b7a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §268: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. Then said Hopeful, Let us go see. CHR. Not I, said Christian, I have heard of this place before now; and how many have there been slain; and besides that, treasure is a snare to those that seek "}, {"id": "card_n_b997172664bf", "title": "Psalm 24 — Psalm 24", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. Who may ascend to Yahweh's "}, {"id": "card_n_3ec8f41470c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_003: Are griefs then too loved?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Are griefs then too loved? Verily all desire joy. Or whereas no man likes to be miserable, is he yet pleased to be merciful? which because it cannot be without passion, for this reason alone are passi"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2f3ff4911", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_021: For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; weeping the death of Dido for love to Aeneas, but weeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, O God. Thou light of "}, {"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. Ev"}, {"id": "card_n_a1e50bac9949", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §271: By this time By-ends and his companions were come again within sight, and they, at the ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "By this time By-ends and his companions were come again within sight, and they, at the first beck, went over to Demas. Now, whether they fell into the pit by looking over the brink thereof, or whether"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_20a9445137c0", "title": "Revelation 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,\n2. who testifie"}, {"id": "card_n_317dc63804ba", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_01: With ten utterances the world was created.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With ten utterances the world was created. And what does this teach, for surely it could have been created with one utterance? But this was so in order to punish the wicked who destroy the world that "}, {"id": "card_n_7e7900821c44", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_li: He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature o"}, {"id": "card_n_748866deee50", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_021: But what moved me, O Lord my God, to dedicate these books unto Hierius, an or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what moved me, O Lord my God, to dedicate these books unto Hierius, an orator of Rome, whom I knew not by face, but loved for the fame of his learning which was eminent in him, and some words of h"}, {"id": "card_n_f9c6185797cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_012: Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general go"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4beb34143a", "title": "Easton: Demas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A companion and fellow-labourer of Paul during his first imprisonment at Rome (Philemon 1:24; Col. 4:14). It appears, however, that the love of the world afterwards mastered him, and he deserted the a"}, {"id": "card_n_8e37e87e7487", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_11: Rabbi Elazar of Modiin said: one who profanes sacred things, and one who desp...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Elazar of Modiin said: one who profanes sacred things, and one who despises the festivals, and one who causes his fellow’s face to blush in public, and one who annuls the covenant of our father "}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}]}