Three sons of Patrick Comerford Law – Alexander, Patrick and Robert – went to school in Rugby in the mid-19th century (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2023)
The brothers Alexander Patrick Law and Patrick Francis Law were celebrated first-class cricketers in the 1850s and 1860s, while their brother Arthur Law was a celebrated actor and playwright throughout the later decades of the 19th century.
These three brothers were what we might today call sporting and stage ‘celebrities’ of the Victorian era, and they had strong Comerford family connections through their father, the Revd Patrick Comerford Law, and both were born in his Norfolk rectory. A fourth brother followed their father and two grandfathers into parish ministry.
The Revd Patrick Comerford Law (1797-1869) was born to Irish parents in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 21 August 1797. His father, the Revd Francis Law (1768-1807), was a curate of Newcastle, Co Wicklow (1790); Vicar of Attanagh, on the borders of Laois and Kilkenny (1801-1807), and Rector of Cork. He in turn was a son of Canon Robert Law (1730-1789), Rector of Saint Mary’s, Dublin (1772-1789), Rector of Middleton, Co Cork, and Treasurer of Cloyne.
Patrick Comerford Law’s mother, Belinda Isabella Comerford, was one of the two surviving daughters of Patrick Comerford, a Cork wine merchant who was also related to the Hennessy family of Cognac fame. Belinda Comerford’s sister was the poet and author Mary Teresa (Comerford) Boddington (1776-1840). Belinda Comerford and Francis Law were married on 3 November 1795.
Patrick Comerford Law was educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1818), and at first he practised at the Irish Bar. He was then ordained deacon in 1828, priest in 1829, and was an army chaplain in Birr, King’s County (Offaly), Rector of Samlesbury, Lancashire (1829), Rector of Northrepps (1830-1869) on the north coast of Norfolk, Rural Dean (1842), and chaplain to the Marquis of Cholmondeley.
His second cousin, Michael Law, was the father of Sir Edward Fitzgerald Law (1846-1908) of Athens, who was involved in reforming the Greek economy in the 1890s and in the negotiations leading to the eventual reunification of Crete with Greece state. He gave his name to a street in Athens and is buried in the First Cemetery, Athens.
Patrick Comerford Law married Frances Arbuthnot on 17 October 1828 in Saint George’s Church, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, where the Revd George Hamilton was the rector. She was a daughter of the Right Revd Alexander Arbuthnot, Bishop of Killaloe, and his wife Anne (Bingham). Frances Comerford Law was born at Clarisford House, the bishop’s palace in Killaloe, Co Clare. Frances died at Northrepps Rectory on 19 November 1857, Patrick Comerford Law died there on 15 April 1869.
They were the parents of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, including the cricketers Alexander and Patrick Law and the actor and playwright Arthur Law.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford … Alexander Patrick Law (1832-1895) matriculated in 1851 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Alexander Patrick Law (1832-1895) was the eldest of four surviving sons of the Revd Patrick Comerford Law and his wife Frances. He was born on 14 January 1832 at his father’s rectory in Northrepps in Norfolk. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up at the age of 19 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in June 1851 as a commoner at New Inn Hall (BA, MA, 1860).
While he was an undergraduate at Oxford, Law made his debut in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent at Lord’s. Four years into his studies at Oxford, Law made his debut for Oxford University in first-class matches against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
He played first-class cricket three times in 1856 for the Gentlemen of England against various combined gentlemen teams. He appeared in two first-class matches for Oxford University in 1857, against the MCC and Cambridge University in the University Match, and also appeared for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex.
After graduating from Oxford, Law made several first-class appearances for the MCC, the Gentlemen of England and the Gentlemen of the North. He played a total of 19 first-class matches, scoring 488 runs at an average of 15.74 and a high score of 59. With his right-arm roundarm medium bowling, he took 19 wickets at a bowling average of 27.15, with best figures of 5 for 72.
Alexander Patrick Law later died at Kew on 30 October 1895.
A plaque in Dorset Square recalls the beginnings of Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787 … Alexander and Patrick Law played for MCC from the 1850s to the 1870s (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2023)
His brother, Patrick Francis Law (1836-1909), was also a celebrated cricketer. Patrick was born at Northrepps Rectory on 28 August 1836, was also educated at
and later worked as a clerk at the War Office.
Patrick played cricket for Rugby School (1854-1855), the Gentlemen of Norfolk (1855-1868), the Civil Service (1864), CL Bell’s Civil Service XI (1866), Marylebone Cricket Club (1866-1872), and the Gentlemen of Warwickshire (1871).
He married Julia Taylor Jones in Walsingham on 9 July 1868, when the wedding was conducted by his brother, the Revd Robert Arbuthnot Law.
The playwright, actor and scenic designer Arthur Law (1844 -1913), a younger son of the Revd Patrick Comerford Law
A younger brother was the playwright, actor and scenic designer William Arthur Law (1844 -1913), better known as Arthur Law. He was born in their father’s Norfolk rectory on 22 March 1844 and was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
After eight years in the Royal Scots Fusiliers (1864-1872), Arthur Law went into acting, making his debut at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, in 1872. After two years touring the provinces, he came to London in 1874 and joined the German Reed Company. While performing with the Reeds he wrote comic theatre works that became part of the German Reed repertoire.
Law married the actress and popular concert singer Fanny Holland (1847-1931) at Saint Mary Abbott’s, Kensington, London, on 7 July 1877. They appeared together with the German Reeds at the Gallery of Illustration and Saint George’s Hall. She also appeared briefly at the Opera Comique as Josephine in HMS Pinafore in December 1879 and January 1880.
Law and Holland performed on tour as ‘Mr & Mrs Arthur Law’s Entertainment’ from 1879 to 1881, but their venture was not a success.
Some of Law’s plays for the German Reeds include A Night Surprise (1877), under the pseudonym, ‘West Cromer’, A Happy Bungalow (1877), with music by Charles King Hall; and Cherry Tree Farm (1881) and Nobody’s Fault (1882), both with music by Hamilton Clarke.
In 1881, he wrote Uncle Samuel, a curtain-raiser for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company played at the Opera Comique, with music by George Grossmith. It played along with Patience in 1881, and Law appeared in the role of John Bird. This was his only association with D’Oyly Carte.
Law later appeared on stage at the Savoy Theatre as Mr Wranglebury in the Desprez & Faning companion piece Mock Turtles (1882), and as Major Murgatroyd in Patience (1882), filling in for Frank Thornton.
From then on, he devoted himself to writing for the stage. His first ‘serious’ drama, Hope, was produced at the Standard Theatre in London in 1882. That year he also wrote a musical farce, Mr Guffin’s Elopement, in collaboration with George Grossmith, for Toole’s Theatre, starring JL Toole. In 1885, Grossmith and Law wrote The Great Tay-Kin, produced at Toole’s.
Law went on to wrote dozens of other plays. His best-known include an adaptation of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab at the Princess’s Theatre (1888); The Judge at Terry’s Theatre (1890); The Magic Opal, an operetta with music by Isaac Albéniz at the Lyric Theatre and the Prince of Wales’s Theatre (1893); The New Boy at Terry’s and the Vaudeville Theatre (1894); The Sea Flower at the Comedy Theatre (1898), A Country Mouse at the Prince of Wales’s (1902); The Bride and Bridegroom at the New Theatre (1904); and Artful Miss Dearing at Terry’s (1909).
A few of Law’s plays were also produced on Broadway, including The New Boy at the Standard Theatre (1894) and A Country Mouse at the Savoy Theatre, New York (1902). He also created the scenic design for The Bachelor, by Clyde Fitch at the Maxine Elliott Theatre (1909).
Law lived for a time in Killaloe, his mother’s home town in Co Clare, and at Hill Cottage, Pulborough, Sussex. He died on 2 April 1913 in Parkstone in Poole, Dorset, at the age of 69; his wife Fanny Holland died on 18 June 1931 in Bournemouth, at the age of 83.
Their son, Hamilton Patrick John Holland Law (1879-1960), was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was a professional musician who lived in Bournemouth. He married Frances Dora Brereton (1887-1973), only daughter of the Revd Cecil Brereton (1856-1939), Rector of Hardham, in Saint Mary’s Church, Pulborough, Sussex, on 9 October 1907, and they were the parents of three daughters.
The actress and popular concert singer Fanny Holland (1847-1931) married Arthur Law in 1877
The fourth surviving brother in this family was the Revd Robert Arbuthnot Law (1842-1889). He was born at Northrepps Rectory on 28 February 1842 and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the curate of All Saints’ Church, Hertford (1866-1869), Rector of Larling, Norfolk (1870-1875), and of Gunthorpe with Bale, Norfolk (1875-1889).
He married Agnes Sparke (1834-1882), only daughter of Canon John Henry Sparke of Gunthorpe Hall and granddaughter of Sir Jacob Henry Astley. They were married at All Souls’ Church, Langham Place, London, on 20 January 1870 with her uncle, Canon Edward Bowyer Sparke, officiating.
Robert Law died at Gunnersbury Lodge, Acton, Middlesex, 11 December 1889 and was buried at Gunthorpe; Agnes died at Burgh Hall, Melton Constable, Norfolk, on 18 June 1892. They were the parents of three sons: Arbuthnot Patrick Astley Law (1872-1938), Hubert Henry Bingham Law (1873-1936), and Alexander Delaval Hamilton Law (1874-1938.
The playing fields of Rugby … three sons of Patrick Comerford Law – Alexander, Patrick and Robert – played cricket there (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2023)
11 January 2024
Daily prayers during
Christmas and Epiphany:
18, 11 January 2024
The remains of the Temple of Artemis in Sardis, with the acropolis in the background … the church in Sardis is addressed in the fifth of seven letters in the Book of Revelation (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Patrick Comerford
The celebrations of Epiphany-tide continue today (11 January 2023). The week began with the First Sunday of Epiphany (7 January 2024).
Christmas is a season that lasts for 40 days that continues from Christmas Day (25 December) to Candlemas or the Feast of the Presentation (2 February).
Today, the Calendar of the Church of England in Common Worship also remembers Mary Slessor (1915), Missionary in West Africa. Before today begins, I am taking some time for reading, reflection and prayer.
My reflections each morning during the seven days of this week include:
1, A reflection on one of the seven churches named in Revelation 2-3 as one of the recipients of letters from Saint John on Patmos;
2, the Gospel reading of the day;
3, a prayer from the USPG prayer diary.
The synagogue in Sardis, dating from the late third century CE … evidence of a strong and long-surviving Jewish community in the city (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
The Churches of the Book of Revelation: 5, Sardis:
Sardis is one of the seven churches in Asia Minor to receive a letter from Saint John as he describes his revelation on Patmos: Ephesus (Revelation 2: 1-7), Smyrna (Revelation 2: 8-11), Pergamum (Revelation 2: 12-17), Thyatira (Revelation 2: 18-29), Sardis (Revelation 3: 1-6), Philadelphia (Revelation 3: 7-13) and Laodicea (Revelation 3: 14-22).
The fifth letter in these chapters is addressed to the Church in Sardis (Revelation 3: 1-6), which is admonished for being spiritually dead, despite its reputation, and it is told to wake up and repent (3: 2-3).
Sardis, or Sardes (Σάρδεις) is modern Sartmustafa in the Manisa province of Turkey.
Sardis stood in the middle of the Hermus Valley, about 4 km south of the Hermus. Today, the village of Sart is close to the main road from Izmir to Ankara, about 72 km from Izmir (Smyrna). It was an important city because of its military strength, its place on an important highway leading from the interior to the Aegean coast, and its position commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus.
The earliest reference to Sardis is by Aeschylus in The Persians (472 BCE). In the Persian era, it was captured from the fabulously wealthy and greedy King Croesus by Cyrus the Great, whose consequent wealth is referred to in Isaiah 45: 3.
Sardis then became the end station for the Persian Royal Road which began in Persepolis. During the Ionian Revolt, the Athenians burnt the city, and Sardis finally surrendered to Alexander the Great in 334 BCE.
At the time the Book of Revelation was written, Sardis was a city known for its luxury and licentiousness. It was a centre of the imperial cult and had a great temple dedicated to Artemis, built along similar lines to the temple in Ephesus.
The remains at Sardis include the bath-gymnasium complex, the synagogue and Byzantine shops. The recent discovery of the large synagogue in Sardis has reversed previous assumptions about Judaism in the later Roman Empire, and provides evidence for the continued vitality of Jewish communities in Asia Minor into the third or fourth century at a time when many scholars previously assumed that Christianity had eclipsed Judaism.
The name Sardis may have been the origin of the word Sephardic, which describes many Jewish communities of Oriental and Mediterranean origin. A place named ‘Sepharad’ is mentioned in the Book of Obadiah, where the prophet refers to the exiles from Jerusalem in Sepharad. There is no scholarly consensus om to the geographical location of the original Sepharad: some scholars suggest locations in Mesopotamia, Sardis in Asia Minor, or Sparta in Greece. However, from late Roman times, some Jews assumed Sepharad referred to Spain, so that by the Middle Ages Sepharad was the normal term used by Jews to refer to Spain.
Sardis remained one of the great cities of western Asia Minor until the later Byzantine period. By the 19th century, Sardis was in ruins.
Verses 1 and 2: The Church in Sardis is addressed by Christ as the one who has the seven spirits and the seven stars of God. The letter implies that the people of Sardis were notoriously soft and faint-hearted. They appear to be alive but may as well be dead, appear to be awake but are asleep. The church exists only in name and not in deed.
Verse 3: The image of being the unsuspecting and unprepared victim of a cunning thief is particularly apt for Sardis: the city was twice captured, first by Cyrus and then Antiochus III because no guard was posted above the steep slopes. The Church in Sardis is now in danger of finding out that it is what has been stole.
Verse 4: Yet, there is a faithful remnant within the Church, who have not soiled their clothes.
Verse 5: White robes are the robes of baptism and the robes of pure worship. The Letter says that Christ will grant to those who are pure in this world a white robe and walk with Christ. The white robes or garments point to the resurrected body. The book of life is the register of God containing the names of the redeemed (see Exodus 32: 32; Psalm 69: 28; Daniel 12: 1; Malachi 3: 16).
As with all seven churches, the church in Sardis is called on to hear the message: ‘Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches’ (Revelation 3: 6).
The Bath-Gymnasium complex at Sardis, dating from the late second or early third century CE (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Mark 1: 40-45 (NRSVA):
40 A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ 41 Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ 42 Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43 After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, 44 saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ 45 But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
The gymnasium complex at Sardis (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Today’s Prayers (Thursday 11 January 2024):
The theme this week in ‘Pray With the World Church,’ the Prayer Diary of the Anglican mission agency USPG (United Society Partners in the Gospel), is: ‘Whom Shall I Send’ – Episcopal Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. This theme was introduced on Sunday by the Revd Davidson Solanki, USPG Regional Manager, Asia and the Middle East.
The USPG Prayer Diary today (11 January 2024) invites us to pray in these words:
Help us remember Lord, in all that we do, that we are all your children. We are all equal.
The Collect:
Eternal Father,
who at the baptism of Jesus
revealed him to be your Son,
anointing him with the Holy Spirit:
grant to us, who are born again by water and the Spirit,
that we may be faithful to our calling as your adopted children;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
The Post-Communion Prayer:
Lord of all time and eternity,
you opened the heavens and revealed yourself as Father
in the baptism of Jesus your beloved Son:
by the power of your Spirit
complete the heavenly work of our rebirth
through the waters of the new creation;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Additional Collect:
Heavenly Father,
at the Jordan you revealed Jesus as your Son:
may we recognize him as our Lord
and know ourselves to be your beloved children;
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Yesterday’s reflection (Thyatria)
Continued tomorrow (Philadelphia)
The remains of Byzantine shops and the gymnasium in Sardis (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition copyright © 1989, 1995, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org
Patrick Comerford
The celebrations of Epiphany-tide continue today (11 January 2023). The week began with the First Sunday of Epiphany (7 January 2024).
Christmas is a season that lasts for 40 days that continues from Christmas Day (25 December) to Candlemas or the Feast of the Presentation (2 February).
Today, the Calendar of the Church of England in Common Worship also remembers Mary Slessor (1915), Missionary in West Africa. Before today begins, I am taking some time for reading, reflection and prayer.
My reflections each morning during the seven days of this week include:
1, A reflection on one of the seven churches named in Revelation 2-3 as one of the recipients of letters from Saint John on Patmos;
2, the Gospel reading of the day;
3, a prayer from the USPG prayer diary.
The synagogue in Sardis, dating from the late third century CE … evidence of a strong and long-surviving Jewish community in the city (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
The Churches of the Book of Revelation: 5, Sardis:
Sardis is one of the seven churches in Asia Minor to receive a letter from Saint John as he describes his revelation on Patmos: Ephesus (Revelation 2: 1-7), Smyrna (Revelation 2: 8-11), Pergamum (Revelation 2: 12-17), Thyatira (Revelation 2: 18-29), Sardis (Revelation 3: 1-6), Philadelphia (Revelation 3: 7-13) and Laodicea (Revelation 3: 14-22).
The fifth letter in these chapters is addressed to the Church in Sardis (Revelation 3: 1-6), which is admonished for being spiritually dead, despite its reputation, and it is told to wake up and repent (3: 2-3).
Sardis, or Sardes (Σάρδεις) is modern Sartmustafa in the Manisa province of Turkey.
Sardis stood in the middle of the Hermus Valley, about 4 km south of the Hermus. Today, the village of Sart is close to the main road from Izmir to Ankara, about 72 km from Izmir (Smyrna). It was an important city because of its military strength, its place on an important highway leading from the interior to the Aegean coast, and its position commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus.
The earliest reference to Sardis is by Aeschylus in The Persians (472 BCE). In the Persian era, it was captured from the fabulously wealthy and greedy King Croesus by Cyrus the Great, whose consequent wealth is referred to in Isaiah 45: 3.
Sardis then became the end station for the Persian Royal Road which began in Persepolis. During the Ionian Revolt, the Athenians burnt the city, and Sardis finally surrendered to Alexander the Great in 334 BCE.
At the time the Book of Revelation was written, Sardis was a city known for its luxury and licentiousness. It was a centre of the imperial cult and had a great temple dedicated to Artemis, built along similar lines to the temple in Ephesus.
The remains at Sardis include the bath-gymnasium complex, the synagogue and Byzantine shops. The recent discovery of the large synagogue in Sardis has reversed previous assumptions about Judaism in the later Roman Empire, and provides evidence for the continued vitality of Jewish communities in Asia Minor into the third or fourth century at a time when many scholars previously assumed that Christianity had eclipsed Judaism.
The name Sardis may have been the origin of the word Sephardic, which describes many Jewish communities of Oriental and Mediterranean origin. A place named ‘Sepharad’ is mentioned in the Book of Obadiah, where the prophet refers to the exiles from Jerusalem in Sepharad. There is no scholarly consensus om to the geographical location of the original Sepharad: some scholars suggest locations in Mesopotamia, Sardis in Asia Minor, or Sparta in Greece. However, from late Roman times, some Jews assumed Sepharad referred to Spain, so that by the Middle Ages Sepharad was the normal term used by Jews to refer to Spain.
Sardis remained one of the great cities of western Asia Minor until the later Byzantine period. By the 19th century, Sardis was in ruins.
Verses 1 and 2: The Church in Sardis is addressed by Christ as the one who has the seven spirits and the seven stars of God. The letter implies that the people of Sardis were notoriously soft and faint-hearted. They appear to be alive but may as well be dead, appear to be awake but are asleep. The church exists only in name and not in deed.
Verse 3: The image of being the unsuspecting and unprepared victim of a cunning thief is particularly apt for Sardis: the city was twice captured, first by Cyrus and then Antiochus III because no guard was posted above the steep slopes. The Church in Sardis is now in danger of finding out that it is what has been stole.
Verse 4: Yet, there is a faithful remnant within the Church, who have not soiled their clothes.
Verse 5: White robes are the robes of baptism and the robes of pure worship. The Letter says that Christ will grant to those who are pure in this world a white robe and walk with Christ. The white robes or garments point to the resurrected body. The book of life is the register of God containing the names of the redeemed (see Exodus 32: 32; Psalm 69: 28; Daniel 12: 1; Malachi 3: 16).
As with all seven churches, the church in Sardis is called on to hear the message: ‘Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches’ (Revelation 3: 6).
The Bath-Gymnasium complex at Sardis, dating from the late second or early third century CE (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Mark 1: 40-45 (NRSVA):
40 A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.’ 41 Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’ 42 Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43 After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, 44 saying to him, ‘See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’ 45 But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
The gymnasium complex at Sardis (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Today’s Prayers (Thursday 11 January 2024):
The theme this week in ‘Pray With the World Church,’ the Prayer Diary of the Anglican mission agency USPG (United Society Partners in the Gospel), is: ‘Whom Shall I Send’ – Episcopal Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. This theme was introduced on Sunday by the Revd Davidson Solanki, USPG Regional Manager, Asia and the Middle East.
The USPG Prayer Diary today (11 January 2024) invites us to pray in these words:
Help us remember Lord, in all that we do, that we are all your children. We are all equal.
The Collect:
Eternal Father,
who at the baptism of Jesus
revealed him to be your Son,
anointing him with the Holy Spirit:
grant to us, who are born again by water and the Spirit,
that we may be faithful to our calling as your adopted children;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
The Post-Communion Prayer:
Lord of all time and eternity,
you opened the heavens and revealed yourself as Father
in the baptism of Jesus your beloved Son:
by the power of your Spirit
complete the heavenly work of our rebirth
through the waters of the new creation;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Additional Collect:
Heavenly Father,
at the Jordan you revealed Jesus as your Son:
may we recognize him as our Lord
and know ourselves to be your beloved children;
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Yesterday’s reflection (Thyatria)
Continued tomorrow (Philadelphia)
The remains of Byzantine shops and the gymnasium in Sardis (Photograph: Carole Raddato, Wikipedia)
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition copyright © 1989, 1995, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org
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