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Let the fields be joyful, and all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth.

APOSTROPHE.

For an Explanation of this Figure of Speech; see page 7.

DEUT. xxxiii. 29.

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon the high places.

MATT. xxiii. 37.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and would not!

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HOSEA xiii. 9.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

HOSEA xiii. 14.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: 0 death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.

1 COR. XV. 55-57.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

ANTITHESIS, OR CONTRAST.

For an explanation of this Figure of Speech, see page 7.

MATT. ix. 13.

For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

LUKE XV. 24.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again he was lost, and is found.

MATT. vii. 13.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

ISA. xl. 4.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

MATT. X. 16.

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

ISA. lv. 13.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

ISA. i. 18.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though

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