Reference: Hard
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Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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then said Jesus to his disciples, I declare unto you, it will be difficult for a rich man to enter into the gospel kingdom.
he is frequently seized by a spirit, which makes him immediately roar, then throws him into convulsions with foaming, and never leaves him, but with difficulty and bruises.
When he had left them, he went to the house of one Justus a proselyte to Judaism, who lived near the synagogue: however Crispus,
with much ado we weathered the cape and got to Belhaven near Lasea.
bravely endure hardships, like a soldier of Jesus Christ.
by which we have receiv'd the most inestimable promises, that thereby you might become partakers of the divine perfections, after having escap'd from the corruption of a sensual world.