{"query": "Called by Name, Not by Category", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ed1b61c25ab7", "title": "Called by Name, Not by Category", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.\n\nThere is a difference between being managed and being known. A shepherd who manages a flock thinks in numbers — how many are fed, how many are "}, {"id": "card_c_953616fb0f1d", "title": "He Leads, You Move ↔ Called by Name, Not by Category", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "He calleth his own sheep by name  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_romans_1_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Romans 1:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Romans 1:1 — In this paragraph we have,\nI. The person who writes the epistle described (Rom 1:1): Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ; this is his title of honour, which he glories in, not as the Jewis"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_john_1_43", "title": "Matthew Henry on John 1:43", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On John 1:43 — We have here the call of Philip and Nathanael.\nI. Philip was called immediately by Christ himself, not as Andrew, who was directed to Christ by John, or Peter, who was invited by his br"}, {"id": "card_n_b26822dd285e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_023: But whether by images or no, who can readily say?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But whether by images or no, who can readily say? Thus, I name a stone, I name the sun, the things themselves not being present to my senses, but their images to my memory. I name a bodily pain, yet i"}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_2_4", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:4", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 2:4 — In these verses, I. Here is a name given to the Creator which we have not yet met with, and that is Jehovah - the LORD, in capital letters, which are constantly used in our English tr"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_john_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 John 3:1 — The apostle, having shown the dignity of Christ's faithful followers, that they are born of him and thereby nearly allied to God, now here,\nI. Breaks forth into the admiration of that "}, {"id": "card_n_3b0dc31a8c38", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_006: But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole, whatever Thyself hath taught me of that matter,--the name whereof hearing before, and not understanding, when they who un"}, {"id": "card_n_5646250b3b7a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §268: HOPE.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "HOPE. Then said Hopeful, Let us go see. CHR. Not I, said Christian, I have heard of this place before now; and how many have there been slain; and besides that, treasure is a snare to those that seek "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_10_21", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 10:21", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 10:21 — Two things especially are observable in this account of the posterity of Shem: - \nI. The description of Shem, Gen 10:21. We have not only his name, Shem, which signifies a name, but"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7c3f7445f0", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §247: Then Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, It runs in my min...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, It runs in my mind that this is one By-ends of Fair-speech; and if it be he, we have as very a knave in our company as dwelleth in"}, {"id": "card_n_f412f364f873", "title": "Easton: Child", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture. Thus Joseph is called a child at the time when he was probably about sixteen years of age (Gen. 37:3); and Benjamin is so called when he wa"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_matthew_17_24", "title": "Matthew Henry on Matthew 17:24", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Matthew 17:24 — We have here an account of Christ's paying tribute.\nI. Observe how it was demanded, Mat 17:24. Christ was now at Capernaum, his headquarters, where he mostly resided; he did not kee"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_leviticus_19_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Leviticus 19:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Leviticus 19:11 — We are taught here,\nI. To be honest and true in all our dealings, Lev 19:11. God, who has appointed every man's property by his providence, forbids by his law the invading of that"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_34_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 34:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 34:6 — Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_3_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 3:20 — God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth, Adam, in further token of dominion, named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Adam bears the name "}, {"id": "card_n_ec58b19c30e1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_024: What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now if another should say that \"this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this reason first conveyed under the name of heaven and earth, because out of it was this visible world "}, {"id": "card_n_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven, or measuring the distances"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_58_3", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:3", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 58:3 — Here we have, I. The displeasure which these hypocrites conceived against God for not accepting the services which they themselves had a mighty opinion of (Isa 58:3): Wherefore have w"}]}