Reference: Hard
Hastings
Besides other meanings which are still in use, 'hard' sometimes means close: Jg 9:52 'And Abimelech
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And Jesus said to his disciples, I tell you truly, that a rich man will enter into the kingdom of heaven with difficulty.
and behold a spirit takes him, and suddenly cries out and convulses him, with foam and crushing him departs from him with difficulty;
And departing thence he came into the house of a man called Justus, who worshipped God, and whose house adjoined the synagogue.
and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea.
Endure evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
through which have been given us very great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption which is in the world by inordinate desire,