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Plato refers to the two gates in his dialogue Charmides: Socrates: "Listen then," I said, "to my dream, to see whether it comes through horn or through ivory." [5] A reference to the Odyssean image also appears in the late (c. AD 400) epic poet Nonnus: As Morrheus slept, the vision of a dream cajoled him,
In 21st century English a "mote" is more normally a particle of dust – particularly one that is floating in the air – rather than a tiny splinter of wood. In the analogy, the one seeking to remove the impediment in the eye of his brother has the larger impediment in his own eye, suggesting metaphorically that the one who attempts to ...
Hendel observed that in the Jahwist's account, God is subject to strong emotions like regret, wrath, compassion, and delight, while in the Priestly source, God is more transcendental and lacks emotion or regret. Hendel characterized the Priestly source as less anthropocentric and its concept of God as less anthropomorphic than the Jahwist's. [225]
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians (commonly abbreviated Pol. Phil.) [1] is an epistle attributed to Polycarp, an early bishop of Smyrna, and addressed to the early Christian church in Philippi. [2] It is widely believed to be a composite of material written at two different times (see § Unity), in the first half of the second century.
The change in the character becomes obvious, instead of referring to the sun as "white", [4] he now refers to it as the "God-curst sun", [4] reflecting the character's emotions changing from sadness to anger. The final line "And a pond edged with greyish leaves" [3] echoes the pond the speaker recalls at the beginning.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing ...
The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...
Chapter 2, §44: It is most absurd and improper to depict in icons the Lord Sabaoth (that is to say, God the Father) with a grey beard and the Only-Begotten Son in His bosom with a dove between them, because no-one has seen the Father according to His Divinity, and the Father has no flesh, nor was the Son born in the flesh from the Father ...