{"query": "The Fire Was Already Lit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4d809fef42c2", "title": "The Fire Was Already Lit", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nWhen the disciples hauled their heavy catch to shore, exhausted and waterlogged, they found that Jesus had not waited for them to provide. A charcoal fire was bu"}, {"id": "card_n_c5b224d84814", "title": "Easton: Fire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled from heaven (Lev. 6:9, 13; 9:24), and afterwards rekindled at the dedic"}, {"id": "card_n_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_eee8cea5bd6a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_014: But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter. So was that also, that when he was yet studying under me at Carthage, and was thinking over at mid-day in the market-place "}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. For it was invisible, without form, an"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. 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_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}, {"id": "card_n_cd9e76f415e0", "title": "The Victory Is Already Past Tense", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\"\n\nJesus did not say the trouble would stop. He said He had already handled what the trouble could ultimately d"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_7f7c436dc87e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_007: Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Profess...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Professorship, whereof in thought I was already freed. And it was done. Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before resc"}, {"id": "card_n_3563f4552f9a", "title": "Easton: Bulrush", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In Isa. 58:5 the rendering of a word which denotes “belonging to a marsh,” from the nature of the soil in which it grows (Isa. 18:2). It was sometimes platted into ropes (Job. 41:2; A.V., “hook,”"}, {"id": "card_n_37fd58b5ed80", "title": "Easton: Burnt offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew olah; i.e., “ascending,” the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt,"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae644f46786", "title": "Easton: Bread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparati"}, {"id": "card_n_07c8246e46f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wa"}, {"id": "card_n_29c59372926d", "title": "Easton: Candlestick", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The lamp-stand, “candelabrum,” which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him. Its form is described in Ex. 25:31-40; 37:17-24, and may be seen represented on"}, {"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_eb4ae8e2d2cb", "title": "Easton: Hearth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., “brazier”), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the king’s winter apartment. Heb. kiyor (Zech. 12:6; R.V., “pan”), a fire-pa"}, {"id": "card_n_ebea07e0d389", "title": "Easton: Censer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The vessel in which incense was presented on “the golden altar” before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offer"}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_n_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}]}