{"query": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading on", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d8471389950e", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading one history", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A people can be traced across DISTANCE and TIME by two records that survive in the body and\nin the mouth: the genome and the language. They are the same method — a molecular clock ticking,\na tree bran"}, {"id": "card_n_19079c10b24d", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_20_wise_and_foolish_builders: \"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will like...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on th"}, {"id": "card_n_706919261212", "title": "Psalm 67 — Psalm 67", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.>> May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. That your way may be known on earth, and your sal"}, {"id": "card_n_770170ab1111", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative method dates the dispersal", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The same history is written in the words. The comparative method reconstructs ancestral\ntongues from their daughters (sealed in the language-evolution wing), and glottochronology's\nexponential vocabul"}, {"id": "card_n_19b10fa2e595", "title": "Leviticus 16", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before the LORD, and died;\n2. and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time"}, {"id": "card_n_752aaf678f74", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_03: “My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, hear My words, for My words are most sweet, surpassing all the knowledge of the philosophers and wise men of this world. My words are spirit, and they are life,(1) and are not to be weighed b"}, {"id": "card_c_d74b608244bd", "title": "Genes and words draw the same (2n-3)!! tree", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "One phylogenetics for both records — the two clocks are congruent."}, {"id": "card_n_b93b068cbe53", "title": "Isaiah 55", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.\n2. Why do you spend money for that which is n"}, {"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a"}, {"id": "card_n_79d439a9e6a9", "title": "1 Clement X", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Abraham, styled “the friend,” was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from"}, {"id": "card_n_8a1d7924121c", "title": "The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and the molecular record", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mitochondrial DNA passes only mother to child and never recombines, so it is a clean\nmaternal lineage; the Y chromosome does the same for fathers. Mutations accumulate at a roughly\nsteady rate, so cou"}, {"id": "card_n_63ef068c22b2", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_13_treasures_in_heaven_one_master: \"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust cons...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust "}, {"id": "card_n_024000713286", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_01: The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; thoug...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple These are Thy words, O Christ, Eternal Truth; though not uttered at one time nor written together in one place of Scripture. Because therefore they are Thy words and true, I "}, {"id": "card_n_61bff7847701", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §397: This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and some on the right hand, some on the left, (as it were to guard them through the upper regions), continually sound"}, {"id": "card_n_475c7c3e8ceb", "title": "Daniel 7", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.\n2. Daniel spoke and said, “I s"}, {"id": "card_n_0e9dce3540f1", "title": "Genesis 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”\n2. He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer "}, {"id": "card_n_e723019597ad", "title": "Easton: Commandments, the Ten", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when t"}, {"id": "card_n_505139b1b9ab", "title": "Easton: Naphtali, Tribe of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, “Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words” (Gen. 49:21). It was intended thus to set forth under poetic imagery the future characte"}, {"id": "card_n_fd479429e947", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_09: He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right way to which a man should cleave? Rabbi Eliezer said, a good eye; Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a go"}, {"id": "card_n_83371763e2c1", "title": "Easton: Gad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she called,"}]}