Preëminence in all and each is yours--
What is that e with the dots on top of it? I've only seen this in my native language on the vowel "u" (Spanish).
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Nor yet a sweet consort from broken strings
I wonder what this line means.
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o'er,
Why do they take the v out in this word? What's the point?
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The next day was the Sabbath. I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight; which lay so close unto my spirit, that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever. Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.
Here we clearly see Mary connecting the spiritual aspects of the Bible to her current tribulation in her life. She is seeing this as a trial or punishment from God for one of her sins, yet she emphasizes how God is also a just and merciful God and extends healing toward her spirit. This shows us that she's seeing all of this through a biblical lense, relating to it and anchoring on to it.
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It may be easily judged what a poor feeble condition we were in, there being not the least crumb of refreshing that came within either of our mouths from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water.
Mary is showing us how deeply in feeble condition and great tribulations she's endured thus far. Her and her baby are wounded and physically in bad condition, while her spirit within her is fighting for her faith and trust in the Lord. This sentence spoke to me because it's showing the severity of the Native Americans actions.
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It is not my tongue, or pen, can express the sorrows of my heart, and bitterness of my spirit that I had at this departure: but God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail.
This is so fascinating to me because I've just finished reading the book of Job with my family. This screams and mirrors Job's character and story from the Bible. Even through her losses and tragedies, she still found rest and peace in her faith in God. The language she used to describe the Native Americans and their actions added to the feeling of her despair and mourning.
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Now away we must go with those barbarous creatures, with our bodies wounded and bleeding, and our hearts no less than our bodies.
Right off the bat, she sets the tone, mood, and scenery with a dark, heavy feeling, literally! This language not only shows how she feels about her captors as inhumane beings but also tells us about her deep agony and sorrowing.
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The colonists sent several men (Joseph Rowlandson among them) to Boston for more troops, but they were too late.
Was Joseph Rowlandson drafted into a militia? Or since it mentioned troops, is he part of a formal military? I thought that at this point in history there wasn't any formal government or military. And wasn't he a minister of a town?
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The resulting strain on Anglo-Indian relations was exacerbated by the depletion of the Native population by disease and displacement while the colonists sustained one of the highest reproduction rates in the world.
I've always wondered if the colonists ever had medication to fight off the diseases they introduced to the Native Americans, because how did they survive themselves? Maybe I forgot from my elementary education but I want to go into medicine and this question has sparked my curiosity because of my passion.
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I had one child dead, another in the wilderness, I knew not where, the third they would not let me come near to: “Me (as he said) have ye bereaved of my Children, Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin also, all these things are against me.” I could not sit still in this condition, but kept walking from one place to another
This is another example of her relating her situation to the Bible. A worst parent's nightmare has come to pass with one of her children that died and she doesn't even know where the 2nd one is nor can she see the 3rd one that's so close to her. Once would think that this would have broken her faith for sure but Mary is a devout follower and remains firm in it still.
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The Puritans believed that human history was preconceived in the mind of God, and followed a narrative structure with a beginning (Creation), middle (Christ crucified), and end (Christ’s return).
This Puritan ideology is consistent with the Christian faith that God has everything preconceived or has foreknowledge of all things (omniscient). This mirrors the Christian faith belief that God gave us free will to decide our choices. He knows the outcome, but he doesn't choose the outcome for us, we do.
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