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  2. Parable of the Great Banquet - Wikipedia

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    Jan Luyken: the man without a wedding garment, Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 22:1–14 [1] and Luke 14:15–24. [2] It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in the ...

  3. Jan Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]

  4. Common-law marriage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, common-law marriage, also known as sui juris marriage, informal marriage, marriage by habit and repute, or marriage in fact is a form of irregular marriage that survives only in seven U.S. states and the District of Columbia along with some provisions of military law; plus two other states that recognize domestic common law marriage after the fact for limited purposes.

  5. Parable of the Wedding Feast - Wikipedia

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    It directly precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:15–24. [1] [2] In the Gospel of Matthew, the parallel passage to the Gospel of Luke's Parable of the Great Banquet is also set as a wedding feast (Matthew 22:1–14). [3] In New Testament times, a wedding was a very sacred and joyous thing. Some even lasted up to or more than a ...

  6. Prior to the enactment of DOMA, the GAO identified 1,049 federal statutory provisions [2] in which benefits, rights, and privileges are contingent on marital status or in which marital status is a factor. An update was published in 2004 by the GAO covering the period between September 21, 1996 (when DOMA was signed into law), and December 31, 2003.

  7. Parable of the Talents - Wikipedia

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    The "Parable of the Talents" has been depicted by artists such as Rembrandt, Jan Luyken, and Matthäus Merian. In literature, the Threepenny Novel (1934), by Bertolt Brecht (1895–1956), presents a social critique of the parable as an ideological tool of capitalist exploitation of the worker and of society.

  8. Parable of the Leaven - Wikipedia

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    Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable, from the Bowyer Bible. The Parable of the Leaven, also called the parable of the yeast, is one of the shortest parables of Jesus. [1] It appears in Matthew 13:33 and Luke 13:20–21, as well as in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas .

  9. Martyrs Mirror - Wikipedia

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    The work took 15 men three years to finish and in 1749, at 1,512 pages, it was the largest book printed in America before the Revolutionary War. [2] An original volume is on display at the Ephrata Cloister. The 1685 edition of the book is illustrated with 104 copper etchings by Jan Luyken.