Word: behold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behold! . . . We should make our fatherland
Descent to the Earth. To the horrified Japanese Home Ministry, it seemed that the Son of Heaven had stepped down to a very earthy earth. The photograph was especially painful, for it showed MacArthur, in informal attire, towering over the fussily dressed Emperor (whom no mortal is supposed to behold from above). The Ministry suppressed editions of Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, which car ried both the picture and reports of the meeting. MacArthur sternly ordered the banned papers released to the public...
Voices rang more strongly with each hymn. The people prayed their thanks, and an earnest young seminarian read the evening's lesson: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . Behold the dwelling of God with men, and He will dwell with them. And they will be His people, and God himself will be with them as their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall be no more...
...thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance from Egypt he expressed through II Kings, 18:21 ("Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce...
...Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. . . . In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world-St. John 16: 32-33 (King James version...