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Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword without,.... Either without the city, the sword of the Roman army besieging it, which destroyed all that came out or attempted to go in; or in the streets of the city, the sword of the seditious, which destroyed multitudes among themselves:

and terror within; within the city, on account of the sword of the Romans, and the close siege they made of it; and on account of the famine and pestilence which raged in it, and the cruelty of the seditious persons among themselves; all these filled the people with horror and terror in their houses; and even in their bedchambers, as the word signifies, they were not free from terror; yea, from the temple, and inward parts, and chambers of that, which may be referred to, terror came, that being in the hands of the seditious; they sallied out from thence, and ravaged the city, and filled all places with the dread of them; and many, no doubt, through fear died, as well as by the sword and other judgments; which it is threatened

shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also,

with the man of gray hairs; none of any age or sex were spared, even those unarmed; not the young man, for his strength and promising usefulness; nor the virgin for her beauty and comeliness; nor the suckling for its innocence and tenderness; nor the aged man through any reverence of his gray hairs, or on account of the infirmities of old age, but all would be destroyed; and never was such a carnage made at the siege of anyone city in the world before or since; no less than 1,100,000 persons perished in it, as Josephus relates

Matthew 6:32

Mat_6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

 

Luke 12:30

Luk_12:30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

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MATTHEW_6:10

THY KINGDOM COME - THE WORD “KINGDOM” HERE MEANS “REIGN.” Note, Mat_3:2. The petition is the expression of a wish THAT GOD MAY “REIGN” EVERYWHERE; THAT HIS LAWS MAY BE OBEYED; and especially that the GOSPEL OF CHRIST MAY BE ADVANCED EVERYWHERE, until the world shall be filled with his glory.

THY WILL BE DONE -THE WILL OF GOD IS, THAT PEOPLE SHOULD OBEY HIS LAW, AND BE HOLY. THE WORD “WILL,” HERE, HAS REFERENCE TO HIS LAW, AND TO WHAT WOULD BE “ACCEPTABLE” TO HIM. To pray, then, that his will may be done, on earth as in heaven, is TO PRAY THAT HIS “LAW,” HIS “REVEALED WILL,” MAY BE OBEYED AND LOVED. HIS LAW IS PERFECTLY OBEYED IN HEAVEN, and his true children most ardently desire and pray that it may also be obeyed on the earth.

The object of these three “first” petitions, is, that God’s name should be glorified and his kingdom established; and by being placed first, WE LEARN THAT HIS GLORY AND KINGDOM ARE OF MORE CONSEQUENCE THAN OUR WANTS, and that these should be first in our hearts and petitions before a throne of grace.

albert barnes exposition of the bible

Isaiah 8:21

(AFV)  And they shall pass through the land, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall rave and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

(ASV)  And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

(BBE)  And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

(Brenton)  And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,

(BSB)  They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

(BSBHebGrkINT+)  and they will pass through1 it2 hard pressed3 and hungry4 and it shall happen5, when6 they are hungry7, that they will be enraged8, and curse9 their king10 and their God11, and look12 upward13.

(ESV)  They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.+

(ERRB)  And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead hardened and hungry famished : and so be it shall come to pass , that when they shall be hungry famish , they shall fret themselves enrage and curse abase their king sovereign and their God Elohim , and look face upward.

Isaiah 9:6-8

[6]For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

[7]Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

[8]The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Exodus 5:9-11

“Let the work be heavy (press heavily) upon the people, and they shall make with it (i.e., stick to their work), and not look at lying words.” By “lying words” the king meant the words of Moses, that the God of Israel had appeared to him, and demanded a sacrificial festival from His people. In Exo_5:11 special emphasis is laid upon אַתֶּם “ye:” “Go, ye yourselves, fetch your straw,” not others for you as heretofore; “for nothing is taken (diminished) from your work.” The word כִּי for has been correctly explained by Kimchi as supposing a parenthetical thought, et quidem alacriter vobis eundum est.

Exodus 5:14-18

As the Israelites could not do the work appointed them, their overlookers were beaten by the Egyptian bailiffs; and when they complained to the king of this treatment, they were repulsed with harshness, and told “Ye are idle, idle; therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.” עַמֶּךְ וְחָטָאת: “and thy people sin;” i.e., not “thy people (the Israelites) must be sinners,” which might be the meaning of חָטָא according to Gen_43:9, but “thy (Egyptian) people sin.” “Thy people” must be understood as applying to the Egyptians, on account of the antithesis to “thy servants,” which not only refers to the Israelitish overlookers, but includes all the Israelites, especially in the first clause. חָטָאת is an unusual feminine form, for חָטְאָה (vid., Gen_33:11); and עַם is construed as a feminine, as in Jdg_18:7 and Jer_8:5.

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Chronology of U.S.-China Relations, 1784-2000

Eighteenth century

1784: First Representatives of the United States Went to China

A ship called the Empress of China became the first vessel to sail from the United States to China, arriving in Guangzhou (Canton) in August. The vessel’s supercargo, Samuel Shaw, had been appointed as an unofficial consul by the U.S. Congress, but he did not make contact with Chinese officials or gain diplomatic recognition for the United States. Since the 1760s all trade with Western nations had been conducted at Guangzhou through a set group of Chinese merchants with official licenses to trade. Some residents of the American colonies had engaged in the China trade before this time, but this journey marked the new nation’s entrance into the lucrative China trade in tea, porcelain, and silk.

1785: First Chinese Arrived in the United States

Three Chinese sailors arrived in Baltimore, where they were stranded on shore by the trading ship that brought them there from Guangzhou. There is no record of what happened to them after that.

1796: Macartney Mission to Beijing

The British Minister Plenipotentiary, Lord George Macartney, became the first Western diplomat to journey to Beijing in an effort to establish direct diplomatic relations with the Chinese imperial court. He received a rare audience with the Emperor, but in the end the effort was unsuccessful.

1810s: The Opium Trade Began

British merchants, seeking a commodity to trade for Chinese goods, began to smuggle Indian opium into China. Seeing that this raised the profit margins of the British, most American firms followed suit, although most obtained their opium from Persia, rather than India.

1830: First American Protestant Missionaries Arrived in China

Mark 8:35FOR whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.  :36 FOR what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 

 

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Life

LIFE, n. plu lives. [See Live.]

5. Manner of living; conduct; deportment, in regard to morals.

I will teach my family to lead good lives.

6. Condition; course of living, in regard to happiness and misery. We say, a man's life has been a series of prosperity, or misfortune.

20. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life.

Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Tim 4.