| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: willows or in a hill-side sheep-pen - "Son of my love," a
heraldic bar sinister, but history reveals a reason for the
birth among the willows far other than the sinister aspect of
the name': these are the dark words of Mr. Cosmo Innes; but
history or tradition, being interrogated, tells a somewhat
tangled tale. The heir of Macgregor of Glenorchy, murdered
about 1858 by the Argyll Campbells, appears to have been the
original 'Son of my love'; and his more loyal clansmen took
the name to fight under. It may be supposed the story of
their resistance became popular, and the name in some sort
identified with the idea of opposition to the Campbells.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: has not sinned; all mine is His, and all His is mine," as it is
written, "My beloved is mine, and I am His" (Cant. ii. 16). This
is what Paul says: "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ," victory over sin and death, as he
says, "The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the
law" (1 Cor. xv. 56, 57).
>From all this you will again understand why so much importance is
attributed to faith, so that it alone can fulfil the law and
justify without any works. For you see that the First
Commandment, which says, "Thou shalt worship one God only," is
fulfilled by faith alone. If you were nothing but good works from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: individuals whose hatred to the foe is naturally intense.[9] But the
success of the above suggestions will depend doubtless on the
consenting will of Heaven.[10]
[4] "Entered on an era of prestige with the incorporation of," after
Leuctra, 371 B.C., when the force was at its worst. See "Hell."
VI. iv. 10.
[5] Or, "money will be forthcoming for them." Cf. Lys. "Against
Philon," xxxi. 15; Martin, op. cit. 319.
[6] Cf. "Hell." III. iv. 15; "Ages." i. 23. Courier brackets this
sentence [{oti . . . ippeuein}] as a gloss; Martin, p. 323,
emends.
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