Mr. Helfrich brought Part 2 (shortened a bit) — dealing with the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus — to the present day, opening with a scene of exhausted debauchery after an office Christmas celebration, with seedy Santas and reclining partygoers cynically invoking "the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world".
The trouble begins with the back-to-back consonants: "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world", in which the singer must try to pronounce two t's in rapid succession on "that taketh".
Psalm 137, a moving lament about Israel's exile in Babylon, ends, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock".
As for slaying one's enemies, this is enthusiastically recommended in Psalms ("Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones"), as it is in many premodern writings.
● Travel apps that taketh more than they giveth: Delta, United, Southwest, JetBlue, American Airlines, Travelocity, Hertz, IHG...be more respectful and responsive folks!
Ambrose cited Jesus' command to "Put up thy sword, for every one that taketh the sword shall perish with the sword".
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain".
It's this giveth-and-taketh-away spirit of boxing that has continued to give it a huge cinematic heritage, and so much of its ambiguity.
THE LORD TAKETH THE LORD GIVETH, The hair that used to crown my head Is thriving on my chin instead!
Globalization now taketh away — it was this democratization of finance that enabled the U.S. to infect the rest of the world with its toxic mortgages.
