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“Mine.”

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“Yours.”

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He alludes to 1 Kings x. 19, 30: “The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.” The same verses are repeated in 1 Chronicles ix. 18, 19.

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“We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”—1 Timothy i. 8.

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A boast.

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In our version it is thus rendered: “Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”—Ephesians iv. 26.

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Sen. De Ira i. 1.

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“In your patience possess ye your souls.”—Luke xvi. 19.

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Susceptibility upon.

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“A thicker covering for his honor.”

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