{"id":263,"date":"2010-12-20T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-12-20T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:59:18","slug":"o-clavis-david-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/o-clavis-david-2\/","title":{"rendered":"O Clavis David"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>hristmas is closer and closer each day, and we continue pleading with the Lord to make haste. Lead us from our prison of sin and darkness and death!<\/p>\n

It’s dark outside now as I’m posting this at scarcely six o’clock. The winter solstice, the longest night of the year, is nigh. This year, it’s even a more tangible symbol of the dark, as we in North America will also experience a total lunar eclipse this evening. Could the need for the light be made any more evident?<\/p>\n

The darkness closes in like a prison; come, O Key of David, and set us free!<\/p>\n

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O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Isra\u00ebl;
\nqui \u00e1peris, et nemo claudit;
\nclaudis, et nemo \u00e1perit:
\nveni, et educ vinctum de domo c\u00e1rceris,
\nsed\u00e9ntem in t\u00e9nebris, et umbra mortis.<\/p>\n

Englished:<\/p>\n

O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;
\nyou open and no one can shut;
\nyou shut and no one can open:
\nCome and lead the prisoners from the prison house,
\nthose who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas is closer and closer each day, and we continue pleading with the Lord to make haste. Lead us from our prison of sin and darkness and death! It’s dark outside now as I’m posting this at scarcely six o’clock. The winter solstice, the longest night of the year, is nigh. 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