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Sustenance Amalthaea goat who provided milk for baby Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 41] food of the gods; bestowed immortal youthfulness. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 19] John the Baptist’s meager fare in wilderness. [N.T.: Matthew 3:4; Mark 1:6] given by the Lord to the Israelites. [O.T.: Exodus 16: 14–15] |
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| Very weak I was already; without sustenance I should surely die. In the same manner must a bliss, of which now they could have no conception, grow up within these children, and form a part of their sustenance for immortality. "Thou forgettest, however, Ben-Levi," replied Abel-Phittim, "that the Roman Pompey, who is now impiously besieging the city of the Most High, has no assurity that we apply not the lambs thus purchased for the altar, to the sustenance of the body, rather than of the spirit. |
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