{"query": "A parable — Repent now", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f5147fe899f7", "title": "A parable — Repent now", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was told the door was open and would not always be so. He thanked the messenger and said he would come tomorrow, for tonight he had business. The next day he had more business; the day after, th"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g3338", "title": "G3338 — μεταμέλλομαι (metamellomai): to repent", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "μεταμέλλομαι (metamellomai), Strong's G3338: to repent. μετα-μέλομαι [in LXX chiefly for נָהַם: ni. ;] depon., pass., to regret, repent one : Mat.21:30, 32 27:3 , 2Co.7:8 , Heb.7:21 \" (LXX) † SYN. : μ"}, {"id": "card_n_ad1729369430", "title": "A parable — Returning to first", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man returned to the field of his youth. The well he had drunk from was still there but the path was overgrown. He cleared the path himself and drank. The water tasted the same. He had not lost the w"}, {"id": "card_n_03b4338c56b8", "title": "A parable — Anger grudge", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man carried a coal in his hand to throw at the one who had wronged him. The coal burned his palm for an hour, then a day, then a year. The other man did not know there had ever been a coal. The man'"}, {"id": "card_n_5335d3c35271", "title": "A parable — Worry children", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mother watched her child run toward the road and called him back a thousand times. By the thousandth call her voice was tired and her child no longer turned. A wise woman sat beside her and said, 'Y"}, {"id": "card_n_556191d135e7", "title": "A parable — Witness two or three", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man had a clear insight at midnight. He wrote it down and brought it to his friend at dawn. The friend nodded but asked questions. By noon he was less sure. He brought it to a second friend, who ask"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g3340", "title": "G3340 — μετανοέω (metanoeō): to repent", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "μετανοέω (metanoeō), Strong's G3340: to repent. μετα-νοέω , -ῶ [in LXX for נָחַם ni., 1Ki.15:29 , Jer.4:28 , al. ;] to change one's mind or purpose, hence, to repent ; in NT (exc. Luk.17:3-4 ), of rep"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_12_41", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 12:41", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 12:41 — Here is, I. Peter's question, which he put to Christ upon occasion of the foregoing parable (Luk 12:41): \"Lord, speakest thou this parable to us that are thy constant followers, to us "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_16_19", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 16:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 16:19 — As the parable of the prodigal son set before us the grace of the gospel, which is encouraging to us all, so this sets before us the wrath to come, and is designed for our awakening; a"}, {"id": "card_src_word_repent", "title": "repent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "repent: (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence — syn: atone · (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about — syn: regret, rue"}, {"id": "card_n_321b6f6055ba", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called “the land of the Chaldeans” (Jer. 24:5; Ezek, 12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed f"}, {"id": "card_n_53896f8be23c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §166: Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solita...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solitary way; which dangers, though he feared them more before, yet he saw them more clearly now, because the light of "}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h5162", "title": "H5162 — נָחַם (na.cham): to be sorry: comfort", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "נָחַם (na.cham), Strong's H5162: to be sorry: comfort. : comfort 1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_15_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 15:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 15:11 — We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how read"}, {"id": "card_n_3e5569f50818", "title": "Martyrdom of Polycarp XI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The proconsul then said to him, “I have wild beasts at hand; to these will I cast thee, except thou repent.” But he answered, “Call them then, for we are not accustomed to repent of what is good in or"}, {"id": "card_n_18b70eabee39", "title": "David the Shepherd-King", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed while still in the field with the sheep; refuses Sauls armor for the smooth stones he knows; spares Saul twice in the caves; falls grievously with Bathsheba and Uriah; receives Nathans parabl"}, {"id": "card_n_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. But what now is, is not future, but present. When then things to come are said to be seen, it i"}, {"id": "card_n_2cf9d143bcc5", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §85: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. What wast thou once? MAN. The man said, I was once a fair and flourishing professor, both in mine own eyes, and also in the eyes of others; I once was, as I thought, fair for the Celestial City, "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_13_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 13:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 13:6 — This parable is intended to enforce that word of warning immediately going before, \"Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; except you be reformed, you will be ruined, as the ba"}, {"id": "card_n_67ae646e6c3f", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §155: Now, at the end of this valley was another, called the Valley of the Shadow of Death, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now, at the end of this valley was another, called the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Christian must needs go through it, because the way to the Celestial City lay through the midst of it. Now, th"}]}