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Canticle. In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle (from the Latin canticulum, a diminutive of canticum, "song") is a psalm -like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books such as the breviary. [1] Of special importance to the Divine Office are three New Testament Canticles ...
The burning bush (or the unburnt bush) refers to an event recorded in the Jewish Torah (as also in the biblical Old Testament ). It is described in the third chapter of the Book of Exodus [1] as having occurred on Mount Horeb. According to the biblical account, the bush was on fire but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name. [2]
e. " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image " ( Hebrew: לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, romanized : Lōʾ-t̲aʿăśeh lək̲ā p̲esel, wək̲ol-təmûnāh) is an abbreviated form of one of the Ten Commandments which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, were spoken by God to the Israelites ...
In this parable, a woman sweeps her dark house looking for a lost coin (engraving by John Everett Millais ). The Parable of the Lost Coin is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in Luke 15:8–10. In it, a woman searches for a lost coin, finds it, and rejoices. It is a member of a trilogy on redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees ...
Achan ( / ˈeɪkæn /; Hebrew: עָכָן, romanized : ‘Āḵān ), the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, is a figure who appears in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the fall of Jericho and conquest of Ai . His name is given as Achar (עָכָר֙ ‘Āḵār) in 1 ...
The two witnesses, as depicted in the Bamberg Apocalypse, an 11th-century illuminated manuscript. The two witnesses ( Ancient Greek: δύο μαρτύρων, romanized : duo martyron) are two literary figures who are mentioned in Revelation 11 :1-14. Some Christians interpret this as two people, two groups of people, or two concepts.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew ( Matthew 18:12–14) and Luke ( Luke 15:3–7 ). It is about a man who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost. In Luke 15, it is the first member of a trilogy about redemption that Jesus addresses to the ...
v. t. e. The cursing of the fig tree is an incident reported in the Synoptic Gospels, presented in the Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Matthew as a miracle in connection with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, [1] and in the Gospel of Luke as a parable. [2] The image is taken from the Old Testament symbol of the fig tree representing Israel, and ...