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But if he says to himself, 'The master is certainly taking his time,' begins maltreating the servants and maids, throws parties for his friends, and gets drunk,
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the master will walk in when he least expects it, give him the thrashing of his life, and put him back in the kitchen peeling potatoes.
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"The servant who knows what his master wants and ignores it, or insolently does whatever he pleases, will be thoroughly thrashed.
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But if he does a poor job through ignorance, he'll get off with a slap on the hand. Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!
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"I've come to start a fire on this earth - how I wish it were blazing right now!
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I've come to change everything, turn everything rightside up - how I long for it to be finished!
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Do you think I came to smooth things over and make everything nice? Not so. I've come to disrupt and confront!
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From now on, when you find five in a house, it will be - Three against two, and two against three;
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Father against son, and son against father; Mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; Mother-in-law against bride, and bride against mother-in-law."
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Then he turned to the crowd: "When you see clouds coming in from the west, you say, 'Storm's coming' - and you're right.
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And when the wind comes out of the south, you say, 'This'll be a hot one' - and you're right.