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So the father and the son, calling him, took him aside: and began to desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things that they had brought.
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Then he said to them secretly: Bless ye the God of heaven, give glory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his mercy to you.
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For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honourable to reveal and confess the works of God.
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Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold:
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For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.
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But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.
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I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.
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When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.
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And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.
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And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil.
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For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.