![]() ![]() He confessed in one: “I fear I should weary you if I wrote oftener.” For their first Christmas of knowing one another, they sent each other identical scarf pins in the shape of a sword - and they crossed in the mail. As a young second lieutenant, my great-grandfather was stationed in the West, where he met my great-grandmother and began writing her passionate and quite poetic love letters. Now, in fact, as I found reading through my great-grandfather’s papers, he seems to have shared with Grant something of an affinity for language. And Grant confessed to spending a good deal of his time here devouring novels. Now, of course, his ranking was better than that of George Armstrong Custer, who was the goat in 1861, but worse than that of Ulysses Grant, who was 21st out of 39 in the Class of 1843. ![]() Edwards, cadet number 52, who saved him from being the “goat.” Great-Grandfather Tyson must have been deeply grateful for Clarence B. Now that doesn’t sound too bad, except that in the Class of 1883 there were 52 students. His name was Lawrence Davis Tyson, and it wasn’t till I recently received a copy of his transcript that I discovered he was 51st in his graduating class. I come from a family with deep roots in the military, and it is a great source of family pride that my great-grandfather graduated from West Point in the Class of 1883. It is a supreme honour for me to be here today at West Point. This is an abridged version of a speech given at the West Point Military Academy, New York, by the President of Harvard University. Delude.West Point Cadet Chapel ( Dave Whelan January 17,2009) From para and logizomai to misreckon, i.e. Strong's 3884: To deceive, beguile, reason falsely, mislead. Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 202: A hearer of, a listener to. A primary particle of qualified negation not, lest also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether. Strong's 3056: From lego something said by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive by extension, a computation specially, the Divine Expression. From poieo a performer specially, a 'poet'. Strong's 4163: (a) a maker, poet, (b) a doer, carrier out, performer. Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb to cause to be, i.e. Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.Īnd become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,īe doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.īut be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.īut be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.īut be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.īut prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.Īnd become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, Don't merely listen to it, or you will fool yourselves.ĭo not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word instead, put it into practice. Obey God's message! Don't fool yourselves by just listening to it.ĭo what God's word says. īut be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.īut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.īut be a doer of the word and not only a hearer, and do not deceive yourselves. ![]() Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.īut be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,īut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.īut prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.īut prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.īut become doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.īut prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely listeners, deluding yourselves. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.īut be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.īe doers of the word, and not hearers only. ![]() Do what it says.īut don’t just listen to God’s word. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. ![]()
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