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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" is a common saying that originated from a Chinese proverb. The quotation is from Chapter 64 of the Tao Te Ching ascribed to Laozi , [ 1 ] although it is also erroneously ascribed to his contemporary Confucius . [ 2 ]
Miles would only have been used by the imperial government and the local occupying forces, which further links this verse with imperial repression. [6] This verse is the origin of the English phrase "going the extra mile," which means to do more than is expected. See The Extra Mile (disambiguation) for its usage in popular culture.
Regarding the fourth beast, the ten horns are ten kings of this last and greatest earthly kingdom; the eleventh horn (king) will overthrow three kings and make war on the "holy ones of God", and attempt to change the sacred seasons and the law he will have power "for a time, two times and a half", but when his allotted time is done he will be ...
She is doing the grand in a distant land, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 3. Oh! that was a dark and dismal day When last she left the strand She bade good-bye with a tearful eye, and waved her lily hand - And waved her lily hand, my boys, As the big ship left the bay "Adieu" says she, "remember me, Ten thousand miles away." Verse 4
Eric Franklin argues that the requirement to "hate" in Luke (verse 26) is "Semitic exaggeration", [7] and Joseph Benson envisages that hatred "signifies only an inferior degree of love". [ 8 ] Cornelius a Lapide , in his great commentary , comments on verse 33, writing that, "this is the post-parable, and sums up the teaching of the parable itself.
In the preface and introduction to his 1875 categorized collection of Chinese proverbs, Wesleyan missionary William Scarborough observed that there had theretofore been very few European-language works on the subject, listing John Francis Davis' 1823 Chinese Moral Maxims, Paul Hubert Perny's 1869 Proverbes Chinois, and Justus Doolittle's 1872 Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language as ...
The Bible and Its Story, Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons is a pedagogical children's book series in 10 volumes published Francis R. Niglutsch in 1908 and 1909 [1]: frontispiece illustrating pivotal scenes from the Holy Bible; edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius August Brewer, it is in the public domain.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing ...