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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, singing in praise to God their wonder-working Savior. All groans and all wailing were laid aside. They formed dances as a sign of peaceful joy.

Until the consummation of the age shall he be in the synagogues of the Gentiles, and among their rulers, as a strain of music in the mouth of all.

And then again did Noah sound this strain:

Shalt boast o'er all, but flute shall sound like strain.

But now, Lord, end my very lovely strain,