Sublime

the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for the moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and that if they have not learned to know Him they will

21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

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20 Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight! 22 Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent

‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’

And it was at this time in his life that Lewis felt he could go no further. He believed he could no more know God personally than Hamlet could know Shakespeare.

Philistines. 7God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.