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Jerome: "His house is this world, which is set in evil, not by the majesty of the Creator, but by the greatness of the sinner. The strong man is bound and chained in tartarus, bruised by the Lord’s foot. Yet ought we not therefore to be careless; for here the conqueror Himself pronounces our adversary to be strong." [2]
The Hanged Man's House, Cézanne, 1873. The Parable of the strong man (also known as the parable of the burglar and the parable of the powerful man) is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 12:29, Mark 3:27, and Luke 11:21–22, and also in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas where it is known as logion 35 [1]
This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().
These were the first Spanish Bible translations officially made and approved by the Church in 300 years. The Biblia Torres Amat appeared in 1825. Traditionalist Catholics consider this to be the best Spanish translation because it is a direct translation from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, like the English language Douay-Rheims Bible.
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For example, Hemingway uses the construction "what passes that ", [23] which is an implied translation of the Spanish construction qué pasa que. This translation extends to the use of linguistic " false friends ", such as " rare " (from raro ) instead of "strange" and " syndicate " (from sindicato ) instead of "trade union".
The titles in the following list are those given in Keller and Keating's 1977 translation into English. [4] James York's 1868 translation into English gives a significantly different ordering of the stories and omits the fifty-first. [5] What Happened to a King and His Favorite; What Happened to a Good Man and His Son
It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman). Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and explain that Man must have a relationship with God to attain it. To develop that relationship, his strength, wisdom, senses ...