After traveling twenty-five miles, he stops to feed the horses and brings out his guitar and starts playing it. Suddenly a troika stops, an officer alights from it followed by two soldiers and starts to interrogate with Ivan asking about the merchant whom he met and stayed together in the inn, since he was found with his throat cut. They start to search among Ivan's things and they find a blood-stained knife in his bag. ... The old prisoners gather around the new comers and ask them of which cities they come from and what they were sentenced for. ... Makar asks Ivan for the for why he is ...

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He starts up a casual conversation with them, but soon finds out that they are not in the mood to talk. ... Children are like chalkboards, when they start out there's no writing on them, but after a while chalk starts to build up on the board masking it, and so you have disguised your chalkboard. Children are the same way, they start off clean and with time they develop the same character flaws and imperfections that men carry around, so as to mask there childhood and eventually taint their adulthood. ... He can't except it because he says, "It's not ...

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Then he sent a dove to return with news of dry ground. ... With these sacrifices, God promised to "Never again damn the earth because of mankind, for the human heart is bent to evil from the start.... "13 Unlike in the Bible, Noah wasn't instructed to bring his wife, his sons and his sons wives; but, "that he may bring his family except those whom the sentence had already passed.... Under the urges of one man, the stories justified the deaths of many people, by saying they died because they were sinners and non-believers. ... In the Bible, the retelling of Moses begins with...

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Then they started to walk on their two hind legs. ... Because the plow required considerable strength, it was used only by men. ... Because they would use all of the resources in one area, they would often seasonally travel long distances to another area with new natural resources, but then return to the same place. ... The years starting the era of the Middle Kingdom was akin to the beginning of the Old Kingdom in many ways because peace had been restored, and people prospered. ... So, the Egyptians started on a series on foreign wars that built their empire so large that they controlled ...

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Strikingly, Ely simultaneously denies the existence of God and declares himself to be a prophet in a single paradoxical sentence: "There is no God and we are his prophets " (170). ... It is precisely because of this that he needs to believe that he is on a divine mission. ... It is not that he wants to keep going because he believes that he is on a divine mission. Rather, the desire comes first: because he wants to keep going, he believes "or tries to believe "that he is on a divine mission. ... Perhaps the man recalls his wife's accusation because at that moment, he regrets no...

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In 2 Cor 4:11 sarx refers to flesh as the body because of the qualifier qnhtovV mortal is given. ... " This verb is significant because it gives a hint as to the origin of the thorn for the flesh. ... In the Greek text the punctuation is set so the sentence that includes the thorn for the flesh, begins and ends with this phrase ἵνα μὴ ὑπεραίρωμαι. ... In 2 Cor 1:12-14 Paul introduces the idea that he will have to defend his sincerity and apostleship and will have to do this with kauca:sqai boasting, except he would not do this boasting with fleshly wisdom, but with the...

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