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Familiar Quotations
OF THE Bible. [Key page 67.]
The common use of many passages of Scripture make it de sirable that all should know from whence they came, and under what circumstances they were originally written or uttered A few of the more familiar quotations are annexed as an exercise in" Searching the Scriptures."
1. Where will you find the common phrase-To "make a man an offender for a word?"
2. Where the wise reminder-"The fear of man bringeth a snare?"
3. Where the familiar metaphor-" An arm of flesh ?"
4. Where the solemn warning-"Be sure your sin will find you out?"
5. Where the humane injunction-" A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast?"
6. Where is Jehovah described as, "Glorious in holiness, fearful in praise, doing wonders?"
7. Where is it said-" Them that honor Me I will honor ; and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed?"
8. Where is there first found the command to "love and serve the Lord with all the heart and with all the soul?"
9. Where the command to "love the stranger?"
10. Where to "love thy neighbor as thyself?"
11. Showing the debasing effects of an atheistic spirit, "Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we shall die?" 12. Showing the hardening tendency of a long course of sin, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"
13. Showing the danger of trifling with conviction and warning, He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
14. "Nor by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord," showing use of means but dependence only on God?
15. "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil," a most necessary warning, for, alas! how many do "custom and ex ample" lead "to swerve from the truth."
16. "Every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart is only evil continually." A strong statement; but showing the need of Divine grace and discipline (Jer. xvii. 9, 10).
17. "Seekest thou great things for thyself, seek them not."
18. "He that ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city."
19. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
20. " Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
21. "Their strength is to sit still. In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."
22. "How can man be just before God? (since) he cannot answer Him one of a thousand."
23. "And thine ears shall hear a voice behind thee saying, This is the way, walk ye in it."
24. "We are but of yesterday, and know nothing."
25. "The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."
26. Where is a king spoken of as "The breath of our nostrils," applied sometimes since in flattery to modern monarchs?
27. Who first employed that powerful simile, now become proverbial, "Like a wild bull in a net?"
28. Christ on two occasions quoted the words, "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice." Where are they to be found in the Old Testament?
29. Who said, "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you?" 30. Where is to be found the declaration, "Man looketh at the outward appearance, but God looketh at the heart?"