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LESSON XXXV (CONTINUED).
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- õi-tit lâi tie̍h pí chiang-lâi kâi-hok a-bōi,
- can it compare with future blessedness or not?
- kiè-i chò--liáu, chò-nî-màiⁿ,
- after you told him to make it, why did you not want it?
- kàu-tî-kò khṳt-i lia̍h tie̍h,
- whereabouts was it that he was caught?
- chí-kâi thiⁿ-tī, chò-nî õi-tit-ũ,
- these heavens and earth, how do they come to be?
- khá-m̄ eng-tng tie̍h,
- ought you not &c.
- sĩ-mih-sîn hó-pài,
- what God ought to be worshipped?
- nâng ũ-chũe chò-nî hó-buah-tiāu,
- if man has sin how can it be cancelled?
- lṳ́ phah-sǹg-lṳ́ ka-kī ũ-chũe a-bô,
- do you think you have sinned or not?
- lṳ́ siẽⁿ pài-Siãng-tì õi-tit sì-kan sĩ-mih-hó,
- do you think that by worshipping God you will get any worldly good?
- uá eng-kai kám-siā i a-mién,
- ought I to thank him or not?
- ẽ-ji̍t huân-iáu àiⁿ-khṳ̀ pài-chóu-chong--mē,
- in the future will you still go and worship your ancestors?
- lṳ́ tńg-khṳ̀ pài-phû-sat, ũ sĩ-mih-chũe--bô,
- if you go back and worship idols, will there be any sin or not?
- ũ-sĩ-mih sîn-mêng sie-hũ,
- is any god to help? What god helps?
- sĩ-lṳ́ ka-kī õi a-bõi,
- can you of yourself do this?
- lṳ́ siẽⁿ eng-kai chò-nî,
- what do you think ought to be done?
- ũ-sĩ-mih hó--chhù,
- what is the use of it?
- lṳ́ ũ jie̍h-chōi-hùe
- how old are you?
- chí-kâi hieⁿ-lí sĩ-so̍k tî-kâi-kūiⁿ,
- this village belongs to what district?
- chí-kâi-sṳ̄, tõ-chiēⁿ-bûn soiⁿ ũ-kì-lo̍k a-bô,
- this matter—is it previously recorded?
- chiēⁿ-bûn ũ-tàⁿ chí-kâi-miâ a-bô,
- is this name found in the previous part of the book?
- kṳ̃n-ji̍t kâi-kuang-kéng chãi-seⁿ,
- how are things these days?
- siàu-ba̍k ti̍t a-būe,
- is the account settled yet?
- ẽ-ji̍t sĩ khá-hó lâi-hiâm pẽ-bó--mē,
- in after days shall he come and blame his father and mother?
- khá-m̄ chhi-chhám,
- is it not very hard?
- khá-m̄-sĩ eng-kai lâu-ma̍k-chap,
- is it not a thing one ought to weep for?
