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§ 1. the two pieces of silver given by the Samaritan in behalf of the man who was plundered between Jerusalem and Jericho, the author of the Warda writes: "One denarius is the Old Testament, and the other the New Testament, and when He Cometh in His glory, He will reward all those who have profited thereby." From the Warda, on "the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho."

§ 2. "… In order that it might be known, that Prophets and Apostles,—the two Testaments, New and Old,—all teach one truth, and that one Spirit from the one whom they worshipped, and whom they preached, spake in and through them all." From the twenty-seventh of the Apostolical Canons contained in the Sinhadòs. For the connection in which this extract is found see under Article XXXIV.

§ 3. "Thou didst receive the inhabitants of Nineveh when they knocked at Thy door with fasting and prayer, with contrition and true penitence, and Thou didst turn away Thine anger from them, and didst not destroy them. Thou didst rescue their life from the jaws of death, and in pity and in mercy didst