{"query": "The Vine Does the Holding", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4b8250d3571a", "title": "The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not strain to stay attached. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_62eb388b9b67", "title": "The Fruit Is Not Your Project", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not manufacture sap. It does not schedul"}, {"id": "card_n_549b1b10d669", "title": "The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nNotice what the branch does not do: it does not produc"}, {"id": "card_n_10e0d719020f", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch has no say in where the root goes. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_d025499fc999", "title": "The Voice Finds You Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nFour days in the tomb. Wrapped in grave-cloth. Beyond argument, beyond remedy. And Jesus does not dig, does not negotiate, does not explain the biolog"}, {"id": "card_n_61213be989a5", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not produce fruit by effort. It produces"}, {"id": "card_n_7331eefd1062", "title": "Easton: Vine", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the most important products of Palestine. The first mention of it is in the history of Noah (Gen. 9:20). It is afterwards frequently noticed both in the Old and New Testaments, and in the ruins"}, {"id": "card_n_a2d4265d581b", "title": "John 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.\n2. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.\n3. You are alr"}, {"id": "card_n_416a0ee2264d", "title": "The Voice Before the Step", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.\"\n\nNotice the sequence Jesus gives: hearing comes first, then knowing, then following. He does not say the sheep study a map and then find "}, {"id": "card_n_4b593d086166", "title": "Easton: Grape", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as “tender” (Cant. 2:13, 15), “unripe” (Job 15:33), “sour” (Isa. 18:5), “wild” (Isa. 5:2, 4). (See Rev. 14:18"}, {"id": "card_n_8674b85a1840", "title": "Easton: Vine of Sodom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Referred to only in Deut. 32:32. Among the many conjectures as to this tree, the most probable is that it is the ‘osher of the Arabs, which abounds in the region of the Dead Sea. Its fruit are the so-"}, {"id": "card_n_4ab28a27c153", "title": "The Source Is Already Inside", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.\n\nJesus does not tell the w"}, {"id": "card_n_2e5343daa4af", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_05: 'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power? Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever? And yet antiquity is full of examples, and these days a"}, {"id": "card_n_388237ac662f", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_06: 'Again, how misleading, how base, a thing ofttimes is glory!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Again, how misleading, how base, a thing ofttimes is glory! Well does the tragic poet exclaim: '\"Oh, fond Repute, how many a time and oft Hast them raised high in pride the base-born churl!\" For many"}, {"id": "card_n_6142314edb98", "title": "Psalm 15 — Psalm 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; He who doesn't slander wi"}, {"id": "card_n_7256189a5fee", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xvii: Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine. Why wonderest thou? The sun itself will say of itself, I was made for something; and so hath every god its proper function. What then were th"}, {"id": "card_n_4a700e918c0e", "title": "Psalm 1 — The Two Paths", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and "}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_9eb4166c2678", "title": "Polycarp to the Philippians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;” and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles "}, {"id": "card_n_fc7e53421012", "title": "Isaac the Offered Son", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only son of promise; carries the wood himself; asks where is the lamb; does not resist on the altar; received back from the dead in figure.\n\nFailure mode: None at Moriah.\n\nRestoration path: N/A as typ"}]}