The rest was held by tenants, sometimes called sokemen from the soke or jurisdiction; and said to hold in soccage because they gave plough-service by way of rent.

This account is close to Matthew 3:13–17 and its parallels in Mark and Luke, with one key difference—the addition of the phrase, “This day I have begotten you.” The Ebionites chose the moment of Jesus’ baptism by John as the key moment in which Jesus became God’s son, rather than the moment of Jesus’ birth. Jesus became God’s son by being “adopted” by him (a “spiritual birth,” so to speak) rather than by being literally fathered by God and born of a virgin. This idea is called adoptionism.

It was at one of these great centres of sport and geniality in the merry month of March that Hamish McTavish decided to espouse the widow McKie, and by way of making it a really big occasion he organised a mammoth pigstick to precede the event […]

[T]he cripple, in falling, gave him ſuch a good pelt on the head vvith his crutch, that the blood follovved.