| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: Christ.
CHAPTER 3
VERSE 1. 0 foolish Galatians.
THE Apostle Paul manifests his apostolic care for the Galatians. Sometimes he
entreats them, then again he reproaches them, in accordance with his own
advice to Timothy: "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort."
In the midst of his discourse on Christian righteousness Paul breaks off, and
turns to address the Galatians. "O foolish Galatians," he cries. "I have
brought you the true Gospel, and you received it with eagerness and
gratitude. Now all of a sudden you drop the Gospel. What has got into you?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: 'Cymindis;' or the hill which men call 'Batieia,' and the Gods 'Myrinna's
Tomb.' Here is an important lesson; for the Gods must of course be right
in their use of names. And this is not the only truth about philology
which may be learnt from Homer. Does he not say that Hector's son had two
names--
'Hector called him Scamandrius, but the others Astyanax'?
Now, if the men called him Astyanax, is it not probable that the other name
was conferred by the women? And which are more likely to be right--the
wiser or the less wise, the men or the women? Homer evidently agreed with
the men: and of the name given by them he offers an explanation;--the boy
was called Astyanax ('king of the city'), because his father saved the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: will be always dear to me. And as for a friend, you have one here that
would die for you."
"I am thanking you," said she.
We stood awhile silent, and my sorrow for myself began to get the upper
hand; for here were all my dreams come to a sad tumble, and my love
lost, and myself alone again in the world as at the beginning.
"Well," said I, "we shall be friends always, that's a certain thing.
But this is a kind of farewell, too: it's a kind of a farewell after
all; I shall always ken Miss Drummond, but this is a farewell to my
Catriona."
I looked at her; I could hardly say I saw her, but she seemed to grow
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