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  • The fruitless He "taketh away" (see on [1857] Joh 15: 6); the fruitful He "purgeth" (cleanseth, pruneth) -- stripping it, as the husbandman does, of what is rank (Mr

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • For alms delivereth from death, and...purgeth away sins.

    Archive 2009-02-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • For alms delivereth from death, and...purgeth away sins.

    Ash Wednesday elena maria vidal 2009

  • Catart. reckons it up amongst those simples that only purge melancholy, and Ruellius confirms as much out of his experience, that it purgeth [4186] black choler, like hellebore itself.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It heats and dries, saith [4129] Heurnius, in the second degree, with a wonderful virtue comforts the heart, and purgeth all melancholy vapours from the spirits, Matthiol. in lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It clingeth to the palate and purgeth it of grosser tastes.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Moreouer, in this place are great store of dates, and flesh great store and good cheape, and especially laced muttons which willingly fall downe, and here the weary pilgrimes haue cummoditie to refresh themselues, saying, that this wicked fact purgeth them from a multitude of sinnes, and besides increaseth deuotion to prosecute the voiage.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Pantagruel to eat some devilish drugs compounded of lithotripton, which is a stone-dissolving ingredient, nephrocatarticon, that purgeth the reins, the marmalade of quinces, called codiniac, a confection of cantharides, which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees, and other kinds of diuretic or piss-procuring simples.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Pantagruel to eat some devilish drugs compounded of lithotripton, which is a stone-dissolving ingredient, nephrocatarticon, that purgeth the reins, the marmalade of quinces, called codiniac, a confection of cantharides, which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees, and other kinds of diuretic or piss-procuring simples.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

    John 15. 1999

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