{"query": "Mordecai at the Gate", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_dfe230563b45", "title": "Mordecai at the Gate", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sits at the gate; uncovers the assassination plot; refuses to bow to Haman; condemned to the gallows Haman built; on a sleepless night the king reads the chronicles and Mordecai is honored; eventually"}, {"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_cca3b515028a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §399: Then I saw in my dream that the Shining Men bid them call at the gate; the which, when ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then I saw in my dream that the Shining Men bid them call at the gate; the which, when they did, some looked from above over the gate, to wit, Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, &c., to whom it was said, These"}, {"id": "card_n_ab7d5fb3e128", "title": "Boaz the Kinsman-Redeemer", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Notices the foreign woman gleaning; protects her among the young men; lets her glean among the sheaves and pulls handfuls on purpose; recognizes her appeal at the threshing-floor; settles the redempti"}, {"id": "card_n_fbfa0cbf408e", "title": "Easton: Gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings"}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_c3203934b80d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §54: First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereunto: because this is to reject the counsel of God for the sake of the counsel of a Worldly Wiseman. The Lord says"}, {"id": "card_n_06500baac3c0", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §60: \"He that will enter in must first without Stand knocking at the Gate, nor need he doubt...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "\"He that will enter in must first without Stand knocking at the Gate, nor need he doubt That is A KNOCKER but to enter in; For God can love him, and forgive his sin.\" He knocked, therefore, more than "}, {"id": "card_n_5eec328f0690", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §308: IGNOR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "IGNOR. Sir, I was born in the country that lieth off there a little on the left hand, and I am going to the Celestial City. CHR. But how do you think to get in at the gate? for you may find some diffi"}, {"id": "card_n_95cc8f265c1d", "title": "Easton: Knock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“Though Orientals are very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room, but walk in without warning or ceremony. It is nearly impossible to teach an Arab servant to knock "}, {"id": "card_n_17f4f305d575", "title": "1 Clement XLVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us therefore, with all haste, put an end to this [state of things]; and let us fall down before the Lord, and beseech Him with tears, that He would mercifully be reconciled to us, and restore us t"}, {"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_c61aa49bf7b4", "title": "Easton: Esther", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess named Hadas’sah (the myrtle), but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth b"}, {"id": "card_n_163f5cbbf02e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §400: Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate: and lo, as they entered, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now I saw in my dream that these two men went in at the gate: and lo, as they entered, they were transfigured, and they had raiment put on that shone like gold. There was also that met them with harps"}, {"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_0a57be27db93", "title": "Easton: Titus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to"}, {"id": "card_n_b9f6b9712c3c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §309: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. But thou camest not in at the wicket-gate that is at the head of this way; thou camest in hither through that same crooked lane, and therefore, I fear, however thou mayest think of thyself, when "}, {"id": "card_n_b8e39dea4ae9", "title": "Easton: Mahanaim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the “angels of God,” and where he divided his retinue into “two hosts” on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name wa"}, {"id": "card_n_b748216438ed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_033: This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage where I had feared more to commit a barbarism, than having committed one, to envy those who had not. These things I speak a"}, {"id": "card_n_0ae03ccbda7e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §83: Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in; but durst not. There also sat a man at a littl"}]}