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  • Chastisement is the exercise to give experience, and make the spiritual combatant irresistibly victorious (Ro 5: 3).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Who, indeed, is that high personage called Chastisement?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Chastisement, which is possessed of great energy and which is present everywhere, is the foremost of all beings among either gods and Rishis and high-souled Pitris and Yakshas and Rakshasas and Pisachas and

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Chastisement is what a loving father does as a part of the healthy process of training a child to become a godly and loving adult.

    Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010

  • Log updated - Lawful Chastisement by parent, no injury present, all sorted! on August 14, 2008 at 10: 30 am | Reply TheBinarySurfer

    Upside Your Head « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • It was during the reign of Romulus of Rome that wife abuse was accepted and condoned under the Laws of Chastisement. ...

    The myth of feminist scholarship... GayandRight 2009

  • I get the sinking sensation we have already been judged by God.....next stop, Chastisement..

    Obama's Nobel Prize John M 2009

  • I confess my Crimes have deserv'd the most rigorous Chastisement which thou my greatest Enemy, canst inflict; then here take thy full Revenge: So opening his Breast, begg'd Mecos to sheath his Sword in his Heart.

    Exilius 2008

  • This sort of thing is also sometimes quoted by daft Catholics-who've-lost-the-plot and who are into things like the Coming Great Chastisement and the Pope Isn't Really the True Pope and so on and so on and so on....

    Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Sometimes I think the doom and gloom theorists are correct about "The Chastisement".

    Political divide... Terry Nelson 2006

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