David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; / Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.