| ◄and | washed, | and | came | seeing. |

པ The | neighbors, | therefore,

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and

they which be- |

is like him:

This is | he;
| |

1

777 but | he | said, | I | am | he. | Therefore | said they unto him, || How were

thine | eyes opened? He

said,

| 917

answered and |

Aman | that is called | Jesus, made | clay, |

and anointed mine | eyes,

and said unto me, | Go

to the pool of Siloam, and wash:

went and washed, and I re- | ceived | sight.

| Then | said they unto him, || Where | is he? | He said, I know not.

They brought to the | Pharisees | him that a- | foretime

blind. And it was the | Sabbath | day |

was

when Jesus made the clay,

and

opened his eyes. |

also | asked him

7777 Then a- | gain the | Pharisees ཤ། |

| |

| how he had received his sight. He said unto

| │He | | them, He put clay I washed, and do see. Therefore said some | |◄| | | of the Pharisees, This man is not of | God, | be- | he keepeth | not the | Sabbath day. Others | | | How can a man that is a sinner | do such |

cause

said,

miracles? And there was a di- | vision a- | mong

|

them. 7777They say unto the | blind man a- | | | What | sayest | thou of him? | that he hath | | |

gain,

opened thine eyes? He | said,❘ He is a pro

But the Jews | did not be- | lieve con- | cerning him | that he had been | blind, and re- | ceived his sight, | | until they | called the parents of him that had re- |

|| Is this your | son, | who ye | say

blind? how | then
| |

His parents | answered them,

doth he now

| ask him, he shall | speak for him- | self.

These words spake his parents, be- | cause they

|

He answered them,

I have told

and ye | did not hear:

where

fore would ye | hear it a- | gain? |│Will | ye | also | be his disciples? Then they re- | viled him, | and | said, | Thou art | his dis- | ciple; but we are | Moses' disciples. We | know that | God

|

| spake unto | Moses:

fellow, |◄we | know not from whence he is. 1777 The man |

as for | this
|

answered and said unto them, |11| Why,

herein |

is a marvellous | thing, that ye | know not from | whence he is, and | yet he hath | opened mine | eyes.

Now we know that | God heareth not | sinners: | but if any man | be a | worshipper of | God,

and doeth his | will, him he | heareth. | Since the world be- | gan was it not | heard any man opened the eyes of | one that was | born 17777 If this | man were | not of | God,

that | blind

he could |

| | do nothing. 11111 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast | alto- | gether | born in | sins,

Jesus heard that they had | cast him | out;

when he had found him, he | said unto him,

and | 1

Dost thou believe on the | Son of God? 1999 | He answered and | said, | Who | is he, | Lord, |◄ that I might be- | lieve on him? |77|17|7 And | Jesus said unto him, Thou hast | both | seen him, |

| T | and it is he that | talketh with thee. |

And he said,

Lord, I be- | lieve. And he |

|

and that they which | see

And some of the

Pharisees which were | with him | heard these | words,

might be made | blind.

and said unto him,

Are | we | blind | also? |

Jesus said unto them, || If ye were | blind,

maineth. 1991

EXTRACT FROM COWPER'S “TASK."

Ac-QUAINT thyself with | God, if thou would'st

| taste

His works. Ad- mitted | once to his em- | | | |

brace,

Thou shalt per- |ceive

fore: 11

that thou wast | blind be- |

Thine eye shall be in- | structed; and thine |

heart

Made pure, shall relish with di- | vine de- | light | ||

Till then un- felt, what | hands di- | vine have |

Brutes graze the | mountain | top, with | faces | prone |

And eyes in- | tent upon the | scanty | herb |

|

It | yields them; or, re- cumbent on its | brow, heedless of the | scene out- | spread

Ruminate,

con- tent
|

but | rests

With ❘ what he views. The landscape | has his praise,

But not its | Author. Uncon- | cerned who |

formed

The paradise he | sees,

And such well | pleased to | find it, asks no | | | | | more. 1991

Not so the

And in the

mind that has been ❘ touched from | heaven, | school of | sacred | wisdom |

To read his

the world,

Fair as it is,

wonders,

taught |

in | whose | thought |

ex-isted | ere it was: 7779|

Not for its own | sake | merely, | but for | his, |

Much more, who | fashioned it, he | gives it |

praise;

Praise that from | earth re- | sulting, as it ought, 177