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Nobody betrays a marriage until a spirit of madness has taken the room first, and God waits at the outer gate where the laughing stops.

He worked the king's road until his own hands quit, and when he went down at last to make peace, the gate had nothing left to give him.

She danced before the Throne on the sixth day and was betrothed to the soul of Moses. Centuries later she stood in sackcloth while men picked at her.

A king buys two servants at one price on one contract, feeds the first from his treasury, and sends the second out to sweat for bread.

Two schools fought over the order God assembles a body in, and the winner found the resurrection hiding in the tense of Job's complaint.