Choice Gleanings

November 22

DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 18-19; Ezekiel 38; John:15:17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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And sitting down they watched him there. Matthew:27:36And sitting down they watched him there;
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The soldiers had finished their work not knowing they had fulfilled prophecies made a thousand years before Christ’s birth. The acts of parting His garments by lots (Ps:22:18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
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