| 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: contradictory things. They found that Paul had circumcised Timothy
according to the Law, that Paul had purified himself with four other men
in the Temple at Jerusalem, that Paul had shaven his head at Cenchrea. The
false apostles slyly suggested that Paul had been constrained by the other
apostles to observe these ceremonial laws. We know that Paul observed
these _decora_ out of charitable regard for the weak brethren. He did not
want to offend them. But the false apostles turned Paul's charitable
regard to his disadvantage. If Paul had preached the Law and circumcision,
if he had commended the strength and free will of man, he would not have
been so obnoxious to the Jews. On the contrary they would have praised his
every action.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: I might be banneret."
Myles flung his arm around his friend's neck, and kissed him upon
the cheek. "Thou shalt have thy will," said he; "but whether
knight or squire, thou art ever mine own true friend."
Then they went slowly back together, hand in hand, to the castle
world again.
At two o'clock Myles went to Lord George's apartments, and there
his friend and patron dressed him out in a costume better fitted
for the ceremony of presentation--a fur-trimmed jacket of green
brocaded velvet embroidered with golden thread, a black velvet
hood-cap rolled like a turban and with a jewel in the front, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: emptied one tumbler after another and grew warmer and warmer
and more and more comfortable. The talk continued on the same
subject for a long time--the harmfulness of a household
dividing up--and it was clearly not an abstract discussion but
concerned the question of a separation in that house; a
separation demanded by the second son who sat there morosely
silent.
It was evidently a sore subject and absorbed them all, but out
of propriety they did not discuss their private affairs before
strangers. At last, however, the old man could not restrain
himself, and with tears in his eyes declared that he would not
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