| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 9: 1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel; and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their transgression.
1_Chronicles 9: 2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
1_Chronicles 9: 3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
1_Chronicles 9: 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
1_Chronicles 9: 5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born and his sons.
1_Chronicles 9: 6 And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
1_Chronicles 9: 7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,
1_Chronicles 9: 8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibneiah;
1_Chronicles 9: 9 and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses.
1_Chronicles 9: 10 And of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: let us suppose that an invading army, superior in force, is marching
against a city: however much the weaker population, whilst they are
still outside their walls, may feel the stress of danger, yet once
within their trenches one and all expect to find themselves in
absolute security. But the tyrant is not out of danger, even when he
has passed the portals of his palace. Nay! there of all places most,
he feels, he must maintain the strictist watch.[7] Again, to the
private citizen there will come eventually, either through truce or
terms of peace, respite from war; but for the tyrant, the day of peace
will never dawn. What peace can he have with those over whom he
exercises his despotic sway?[8] Nor have the terms of truce been yet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: "Nay, nay, Master Myles," said he, when Myles had ended by
telling the use to which he intended putting them. "Thou art
going all wrong in this matter. With such blades, ere this battle
is ended, some one would be slain, and so murder done. Then the
family of him who was killed would haply have ye cited, and
mayhap it might e'en come to the hanging, for some of they boys
ha' great folkeys behind them. Go ye to Tom Fletcher, Master
Myles, and buy of him good yew staves, such as one might break a
head withal, and with them, gin ye keep your wits, ye may hold
your own against knives or short swords. I tell thee, e'en though
my trade be making of blades, rather would I ha' a good stout
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