I will just put two quotations side by side:--

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,

neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in

all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

"Learn a lesson from the wild lilies. Watch their growth. They

neither toil nor spin, and yet I tell you that not even Solomon

in all his magnificence could array himself like one of these."

Here you can feel the perfect harmony and balance of the old version

and the miserable commonplaceness of the effort of these misguided

modern men.

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