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37:1 Let us, therefore, men and brethren, carry on our warfare with all
earnestness in his faultless ordinances.
37:2 Let us consider those who fight under our rulers, how orderly and
obediently and submissively they perform what is commanded them.
37:3 All are not prefects, or commanders of thousands, or commanders of
hundreds, or commanders of fifties, or such-like; but each in his own rank
performeth what has been ordered by the king or the commanders.
37:4 The great cannot exist without the small, nor the small without the
great. There is a certain mixture in all things, and from thence ariseth their
use.
37:5 Let us take, for example, our body; the head is nothing without the
feet, nor the feet without the head.
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The smallest members of the body are
necessary and useful to the whole body, and all unite and work with harmonious
obedience for the preservation of the whole body.