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There each of the brothers dwelt the same length of time and was shaped during the same period of time; and growing from the same blood and through the same life, they were brought to the light of day.
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When they were born after an equal time of gestation, they drank milk from the same fountains. For such embraces brotherly-loving souls are nourished;
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and they grow stronger from this common nurture and daily companionship, and from both general education and our discipline in the law of God.
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Therefore, when sympathy and brotherly affection had been so established, the brothers were the more sympathetic to one another.
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Since they had been educated by the same law and trained in the same virtues and brought up in right living, they loved one another all the more.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.