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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
shut .
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Examples
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Dec. 20: O Key of David, and sceptre of the house of Israel, who openest, and no man shutteth; who shuttest, and no man openeth; come, adn lead the captive from prison, sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death.
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Dec. 20: O Key of David, and sceptre of the house of Israel, who openest, and no man shutteth; who shuttest, and no man openeth; come, adn lead the captive from prison, sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death.
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Thou hast heard what the captains have said, but as yet thou shuttest thy gates.
The Holy War 2001
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Or, again, who will tolerate thee in thy juggling with forms and numbers, -- at one time thirty, at another twenty-four, and at another, again, only six, -- whilst thou shuttest up
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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The Oikos: Thou that shuttest up and openest the abyss, that carriest up water into the clouds and grantest rain unto the face of the earth, do grant, O God, unto my barren soul also, for the opening of my mouth, well composed speech and unto my stuttering tongue clear utterance that I may be able worthily to hymn Thy holy ones whom Thou Thyself hast glorified, for
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And just as when hurrying to escape the onset of a wild beast, thou enterest into a cabin and shuttest to the doors; so now also flee unto the life to come, and that unspeakable glory.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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But when thou both shuttest up corn and raisest the price, and devisest other unusual tricks of traffic; what hope of salvation shalt thou have henceforth?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Jesus, Paradise of delights, Key of David, that shuttest and no man openeth, and openest and no man shutteth, stretch forth the arms of Thy divine mercy and grace, and take me, Thy wretched creature, that flieth to Thee in his trouble.
Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. c. 1300-1361 1875
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No sins can be covered, but such as God himself shall be pleased to cover within the righteousness of his own son: he that can see in secret, and when thou shuttest thy door behold thee praying in thy closet, can as easily see thee when thou art sinning there; and as for private duty he will reward, so for secret sin he will punish thee openly, either in this world or in another.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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"Now O good shepherd, merciful Peter, accept the prayers of us who supplicate, and loose the bands of our sins, by the power committed to thee, by which thou shuttest heaven against all by a word, and openest it."
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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