--- Vince Lavieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lama wrote: > > > My problem was I couldn't find the exact wording > that I remembered so > > clearly from my Episcopalian confirmation days. > > > > Vince had previosuly written: > > > ou would probably find that "the Lord giveth and > the Lord taketh away" as a > > phrase in those precise words is found in old > English books of common > > prayer. I define as "old" as Reformation era and > later, through > > the varous editions of prayer books in the 1500s > and 1600s. >
Could it be from Eccliastes? "To everything there is a season... a time to be born & a time to die." It has that kind of balanced rhetoric - maybe it was another translation, or a paraphrase of this? ______________________________________________________________________ Find, Connect, Date! http://personals.yahoo.ca
