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A sentence, particularly in Anglican services, is a short passage from the Bible that is recited in Christian liturgies.For example, with the Church of England's currently authorized 1662 Book of Common Prayer, sentences are used at several points within different rites: prescribed sentences are to be recited before Morning and Evening Prayers, at least one sentence may be said or sung during ...
The Suppliants (Ancient Greek: Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides; Latin: Supplices), also called The Suppliant Maidens, The Suppliant Women, or Supplices [1] is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed "only a few years previous to the Oresteia , which was brought out 458 BC."
The Student Supplement to the SBL Handbook of Style recommends that such text be cited in the form of a normal book citation, not as a Bible citation. For example: [9] Sophie Laws (1993). "The Letter of James". In Wayne A. Meeks; et al. (eds.). The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books.
One example of supplication is the Western Christian ritual of novena (from novem, the Latin word for "nine") wherein one repeatedly asks for the same favor over a period of nine days. [6] This ritual began in Spain during the Middle Ages when a nine-day period of hymns and prayers led up to a Christmas feast, a period which ended with gift giving.
Hebrew Bible words and phrases (3 C, 71 P) N. New Testament words and phrases (7 C, 90 P) S. Septuagint words and phrases (8 P) U. Unnamed people of the Bible (3 C ...
In this verse Jesus presents the example of the lilies, who also do no labour. Spin in this verse is a reference to spinning thread , a labour-intensive but necessary part of making clothing. Spinning was traditionally women's work, something made explicit in Luke's version of this verse.
Patrick, who previously worked for ESPN, told Barkley "you're going to be working a lot more than you think you're going to be working." Barkley said he wouldn't be working "like no damn dog" and ...
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 ...