It is the last that alone explains all that went before, and it is the coming that will alone explain the present.

God before all, through all, foreseeing all, and still preparing all; God in all is profoundly evident.' Yes, profoundly evident to profound minds, and experimentally and sweetly evident to religious minds, and to renewed and loving and holy hearts.
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For fame and for state a palace, while for strength it might be called a castle.

In sufficiently ancient times the king's palace was always a castle also.

David's palace on Mount Zion was as much a military fortress as a royal residence; and King Priam's palace was the protection both of itself and of the whole of the country around.