Page 80 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

READING LESSONS. - 79 111 Galilee, and Perea; and Philip, bis brother, t·arch
11 of Idumea, Trachonitis, and Abilene. LESSON X.
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BENEV oLENCE, ·, a win or wish r the happinss or g?Od of others. L. benevolentia ;-beiw, well or good, volo, I will, I wish.
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lite. L. hu ilis, humble, low, om humus, the ground, the earth. T rn'ITY, n., timorousness. F. timidite, om timeo, L., I ar.
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L E OF OUR LORD (CONTINUED).
f HuMIL ITY, n., a virtue, which makes us think and act agreeably to our own nothingness, and with a view of pleasing God. F. humi­
J 1NTER PRETER, n., an expounder. L. interpres, said to be an abbre­
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viation of interpartes,-because originally an agent between par- ties; afterwards an expositor.
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11 Tnrnu NAL, n., the seat of a judge in the court of justice. F. and L. tribunal, om tribus, L., a tribe or ward. Anciently the people of Rome were divided into three sections, with a magistrate over each. This magistrate was thence called a tribune, and the place or seat where he gave judgment, a tribunal.
ADJu'RED, pt., put upon oath of a prescribed rm. F. a ure, om juri.,, L., right, law, justice.
BLAs PHEllY, n., speaking evil of God or his Saints :-in this place, an
indignity to God by claiming a participation in the Divine nature.
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F. blaspheme, om p emi, G., I speak or say. 1
OeAs TISE IENT, n., punishment. F. cluitiment, om castigo, L., I pun­ ish,- d this om kastos, G., a stick or cudgel.
REDEll TION, n., ransom, restoration. F. rede tion, om redimo,
L., I redeem: re, and emo (according to some, om G. emo mine},
I purchase.
AscEN SION, n., the visible self-elevation, or ascent of our Blessed Sa­ viour into heaven from the summit of Mount Olivet. F. ascension, om scan , L., I mount.
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1. WE must suppose the history of our blessed Redeemer to be su ciently known by all. Avoiding all earthly sp1endour and worldly com rts, llowed by a w chosen iends, unknown and persecuted by the rich and the noble as by the lmvest of the people, he spent three years in acts of heavenly benevolence, and in imparting eternal truths to men. He taught the reconciliation of man with God, through ith,