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The provided passages do not contain information about the central thesis of the text "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
The passages consist primarily of biblical citations and fragmented theological reflections on concepts such as God's nature, the happiness derived from sharing abundance, the perception of rich versus poor speakers, and the nature of prayer and divine responsiveness [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. There is no narrative or explicit statement of a central thesis concerning a specific work like "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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ey descend, as God, to a communication of their abundances with men, according to their necessities, then they are gods. No man is well that understands not, that values not his being well; that hath not a cheertulness and a joy in it; and whosoever hath this joy, hath a desire to communicate, to propagate that which occasions his happiness and his joy to others; for every man loves witnesses of his happiness, and the best witnesses arc experimental witnesses; they who have tasted of that in themselves which makes us happy: it consummates therefove, it perfects the happiness of kings, to…
↑ John, xi. 23. ↑ Num. xxiii. 9. ↑ Deut. xxxiii. 28. ↑ Eccles. iv. 10. ↑ Wisd. i. 15. ↑ Matt. xiv. 23. ↑ Matt. xxvi. 13. ↑ John, viii. 16. ↑ Psalm xxxviii. 11. ↑ Isaiah lxii. 3. ↑ 1 Kings, xiv. 14. ↑ Luke, x. 40. ↑ Jer. i. 1. ↑ Lev. xiii. 46. ↑ Exod. xiv. 2. ↑ Gen. xxxii. 24. 25. ↑ Ecclus. vi. 16.
devotion to thee 7 Dost thou command me to speak to thee, and command me to fear thee; and do these destroy one another? There is no perplexity in thee, my God; no inextricableness in thee, my light and my clearness, my sun and my moon, that directest me as well in the night of adversity and fear, as in my day of prosperity and confidence. I must then speak to thce at all times, but when must I fear thee? At all times too. When didst thou rebuke any petitioner with the name of importunate? Thou hast proposed to us a parable of a judge that did justice at last, because the client was…
5; liii. 5. ↑ John, vii. 13; xix. 38; xxix. 19. ↑ Isaiah, xxxiii. 6. ↑ Matt. viii. 26. ↑ Judges, vii. 3. ↑ Rev. xxi. 8. ↑ Job, vi. 20. ↑ Matt. xxviii. 8. ↑ Psalm cxi. 10. ↑ Prov. i. 7. ↑ Ecclus. i. 20, 27. ↑ Deut. iv. 10. ↑ Heb. xi. 7. ↑ Ecclus. xviii. 27.
. 13. ↑ Amos, vi. 4. ↑ Psalm cxxxii. 3. ↑ Rev. ii. 22. ↑ Matt. viii. 6. ↑ Matt. viii. 4. ↑ Matt. viii. 14. ↑ Psalm xxvi. 8. ↑ Psalm lxxxiv. 4. ↑ Psalm v. 7. ↑ Psalm lxix. 9. ↑ 1 Cor. ix. 27. ↑ 2 Kings, ii. 11. ↑ Exodus, xxi. 18. ↑ Psalm xli. 3. ↑ Psalm iv. 4.