{"query": "The Fire Was Already Lit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4d809fef42c2", "title": "The Fire Was Already Lit", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nWhen the disciples hauled their heavy catch to shore, exhausted and waterlogged, they found that Jesus had not waited for them to provide. A charcoal fire was bu"}, {"id": "card_n_c5b224d84814", "title": "Easton: Fire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled from heaven (Lev. 6:9, 13; 9:24), and afterwards rekindled at the dedic"}, {"id": "card_c_c8ebec8ef9c4", "title": "The Meal Before the Mission ↔ The Fire Was Already Lit", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "He had already built the fire. He had already laid the fish. He said, Come and dine.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_7bd850e59fb6", "title": "The Fire Was Already Lit ↔ The Meal Before the Mission", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A charcoal fire was burning. Fish were already on it. Bread was ready. He asked them to bring some of their catch — not because He needed it, but because participation matters to Him. The provision pr"}, {"id": "card_n_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_eee8cea5bd6a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_014: But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But this was already being laid up in his memory to be a medicine hereafter. So was that also, that when he was yet studying under me at Carthage, and was thinking over at mid-day in the market-place "}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_chronicles_3_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Chronicles 3:1 — Here is, I. The place where the temple was built. Solomon was neither at liberty to choose nor at a loss to fix the place. It was before determined (Ch1 22:1), which was an ease "}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. For it was invisible, without form, an"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g6515", "title": "G6515 — ἄπυρος (apuros): unfired", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "ἄπυρος (apuros), Strong's G6515: unfired. without fire , of pans and tripods, that have not yet been on the fire, fire-new, brand-new , (Iliad by Homer): —; without fire , i. e. cold, cheerless , οἶκο"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_chronicles_7_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 7:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Chronicles 7:1 — Here is, I. The gracious answer which God immediately made to Solomon's prayer: The fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifice, Ch2 7:1. In this way God testified his "}, {"id": "card_src_lex_g9000", "title": "G9000 — πυρφόρος (purphoros): a fire-bearer", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "πυρφόρος (purphoros), Strong's G9000: a fire-bearer. 1. fire-bearing , (Aeschulus Tragicus); of lightning, (Pindar):—; πυρφόροι ὀϊστοί arrows with combustibles tied to them , (Thucydides) 2. in specia"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_joshua_17_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Joshua 17:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Joshua 17:1 — Manasseh was itself but one half of the tribe of Joseph, and yet was divided and subdivided. 1. It was divided into two parts, one already settled on the other side Jordan, consisting"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_exodus_20_18", "title": "Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:18", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Exodus 20:18 — I. The extraordinary terror with which the law was given. Never was any thing delivered with such awful pomp; every word was accented, and every sentence paused, with thunder and lig"}, {"id": "card_n_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_n_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}, {"id": "card_n_7f7c436dc87e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_007: Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Profess...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Professorship, whereof in thought I was already freed. And it was done. Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before resc"}, {"id": "card_n_07c8246e46f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wa"}, {"id": "card_n_6ae644f46786", "title": "Easton: Bread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Jews was generally made of wheat (Ex. 29:2; Judg. 6:19), though also sometimes of other grains (Gen. 14:18; Judg. 7:13). Parched grain was sometimes used for food without any other preparati"}]}