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It is never fulfilled; the fulfilment of love is its crucifixion; but it lives on for ever in a passion-week of pain until pain itself grows dull; and then one wishes one had been born quite a common little soul, when one would probably have been very happy.
My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890
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It enters largely into the order of the Latin Church for the services of passion-week.
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The last Evangelist gives a very different account of many points in the history of the passion and resurrection of Christ, especially in respect to the last Supper and the chronology of the whole passion-week.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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Christ wrought a little before his death -- the raising of Lazarus to life, which is recorded only by this evangelist; for the other three confine themselves to what Christ did in Galilee, where he resided most, and scarcely ever carried their history into Jerusalem till the passion-week: whereas John's memoirs relate chiefly to what passed at
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Jerusalem, upon the first day of the passion-week, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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For at this chapter begins that which is called the passion-week.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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An epidemic distemper visited them; but although many in the time of sickness promised to love the Saviour and seek to know him, no permanent effect followed; yet they attended the daily meetings during the passion-week to hear of his sufferings, and seemed attentive to what they heard, which somewhat encouraged their teachers, who thus wrote to England, "We do not despair.
The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous
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