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Augustine: By the words, one iota or one point shall not pass from the Law, we must understand only a strong metaphor of completeness, drawn from the letters of writing, iota being the least of the letters, made with one stroke of the pen, and a point being a slight dot at the end of the same letter. The words there show that the Law shall be ...
In another sense is the kingdom of heaven spoken of that place where none enters but he who does what he teaches, and this is the Church as it shall be hereafter. [5] Augustine: This expression, the kingdom of heaven, so often used by our Lord, I know not whether any one would find in the books of the Old Testament. It belongs properly to the ...
Chrysostom: "The Lord had said to the Jews, The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; that they should not therefore be careless, He tells them that not only in the world to come but here also they should suffer grievous things; setting forth in a sort of riddle the punishment that should fall upon them; whence He says, When the unclean spirit ...
This too shall pass" (Persian: این نیز بگذرد, romanized: īn nīz bogzarad) is an adage of Persian origin about impermanence. It reflects the temporary nature, or ephemerality , of the human condition — that neither the negative nor the positive moments in life ever indefinitely last.
All things must pass None of life's strings can last So I must be on my way And face another day. Ultimately, the cycle of nature offers "consolation", Leng writes, [30] as further evidenced in the verse-three lines "Now the darkness only stays at night time" and "Daylight is good at arriving at the right time". [21]
Mark 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It contains the "Markan Apocalypse": [1] Jesus' predictions of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and disaster for Judea, as well as Mark's version of Jesus' eschatological discourse.
37:For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. The New International Version translates the passage as: 36:But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. 37:For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
Hilary of Poitiers: " Figuratively; This His answer, that while the Bridegroom was present with them, His disciples needed not to fast, teaches us the joy of His presence, and the sacrament of the holy food, which none shall lack, while He is present, that is, while one keeps Christ in the eye of the mind. He says, they shall fast when He is ...