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In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess ( daimon ) of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes , her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths.
The title is an English transliteration of Greek for "the hope of Israel", taken from Acts 28:20.The book was based on a series of lectures given by Thomas in 1848 and consists of three parts, The Rudiments Of The World, The Things Of The Kingdom Of God And Of Jesus Christ and The Kingdoms Of The World In Their Relation To The Kingdom Of God.
Elpis may refer to: Elpis (mythology), Ancient Greek spirit of Hope; Elpis (wife of Boethius) (died c. AD 504), a Roman poet and hymnographer;
Pistis in rhetoric can mean "proof" and is the element to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give "proof" of a statement. [3] There are three modes by which this is employed. The first mode is the "subject matter capable of inducing a state of mind within the audience."
Elpis, first wife of the celebrated philosopher Boethius, was the daughter of Festus, Consul at Rome in AD 472, and sister of the mother of Saint Placidus, a disciple of Saint Benedict. The hymn "Aurea luce et decore roseo" is usually, but somewhat uncertainly, attributed to her. Others also bear her name. She died at an early age, at Padua. [2]
Dr. John Thomas (12 April 1805 – 5 March 1871) was a British religious leader and founder of the Christadelphians.He was a dedicated Bible expositor, and author of Elpis Israel, the first major writing to bring to light the subject of "God Manifestation" and the hope of Israel for future generations.
In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός, "depth" or "profundity"), Arkhe (ἀρχή, "the beginning"), Proarkhe (προαρχή, "before the beginning") and as Aeons (which are also often named and may be paired or grouped).
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...