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I see again what I thought I saw the first time, when I sent forth the little book that was compared to and in fact could best be compared to “a humble little flower under the cover of the great forest”

— Søren Kierkegaard Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849)

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The High Priest Hebrews 4:15

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