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This divine judgment is to take place, according to the Biblical view, on earth, and is intended to be particularly a vindication of Israel. [13] This Day of Judgment ("Day of the Lord") is portrayed vividly in the Book of Jubilees and particularly in Enoch. The leading idea in Enoch is that the Deluge was the first world-judgment, and that the ...
The Ladder of Divine Ascent or Ladder of Paradise (Κλῖμαξ; Scala or Climax Paradisi) is an important ascetical treatise for monasticism in Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, written by John Climacus in c. 600 AD at the Saint Catherine's Monastery; it was requested by John, Abbot of the Raithu monastery.
The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God. The king is thus not subject to the will of his people, the aristocracy, or any other ...
On-line Concordance to the Divine Comedy; Wikisummaries summary and analysis of Inferno; Danteworlds, multimedia presentation of the Divine Comedy for students by Guy Raffa of the University of Texas; Dante's Places: a map (still a prototype) of the places named by Dante in the Commedia, created with GoogleMaps. Explanatory PDF is available for ...
Muslim exegetes explain the use of the word masīh in the Quran as referring to Jesus' status as the one anointed by means of blessings and honors; or as the one who helped cure the sick, by anointing the eyes of the blind, for example. [92] Jesus also holds a description as both a word from God and a soul. [103]
This reference from the Bible forms the foundation for the doctrine known as the divine right of kings, or, in the German case, the divine right of the princes. Second, the violent actions of rebelling, robbing, and plundering placed the peasants "outside the law of God and Empire", so they deserved "death in body and soul, if only as ...
Paradise Lost is, among other things, a poem about civil war. Satan raises "impious war in Heav'n" (i 43) by leading a third of the angels in revolt against God. The term "impious war" implies that civil war is impious. But Milton applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute King Charles I.
Gog and Magog (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ ɡ ... ˈ m eɪ ɡ ɒ ɡ /; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūj u wa-Maʾjūj u) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Qur'an, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands.