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Another likewise bends his mind "}, {"id": "card_n_5d5608da1ea3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those truths, he chooses one to himself, who saith, But the earth was invisible, and without form, and darkness was upon the dee"}, {"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_a43d95aeec20", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_014: See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See, I answer him that asketh, \"What did God before He made heaven and earth?\" I answer not as one is said to have done merrily (eluding the pressure of the question), \"He was preparing hell (saith he"}, {"id": "card_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_7660d89a69f9", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §224: There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge, the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them. 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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_n_e0131ccdbaad", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_006: Lo, now the Trinity appears unto me in a glass darkly, which is Thou my God, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, now the Trinity appears unto me in a glass darkly, which is Thou my God, because Thou, O Father, in Him Who is the Beginning of our wisdom, Which is Thy Wisdom, born of Thyself, equal unto Thee an"}, {"id": "card_n_36c39e258b67", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_028: Out of these truths, of which they doubt not whose inward eye Thou hast enabl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Out of these truths, of which they doubt not whose inward eye Thou hast enabled to see such things, and who unshakenly believe Thy servant Moses to have spoken in the Spirit of truth;--of all these th"}, {"id": "card_n_0eb23584f080", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_009: And what is this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what is this? 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