Word: taketh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
Arno's people, on the other hand, have generally created their own situation: The man sitting at a bar with a beautiful girl telling the bartender to, "Fill 'er up," or the two clerics watching a parish bazaar and saying. "Ah, well, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...
...must face the problem in a spirit of steadfastness and humility, remembering the admonition of the ancient King of Israel: 'Let no man that putteth on his armor boast as he that taketh it off' ... The way ahead is long...