Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray....
|
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting.
|
A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.
|
1 Peter 4:10:
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
(NIV)
As each of you has received a gift (a particular spiritual talent, a gracious divine endowment), employ it for one another as [befits] good trustees of God's many-sided grace [faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favor].
(AMP)
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
(KJV)
|
1 Peter 1:6:
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
(NIV)
[You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations,
(AMP)
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
(KJV)
|
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
|
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
|