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"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 (KJV) And that the consequence for sin at the day of judgment when God will judge both the living and the dead when He appears is death, not burning forever. God's gift is eternal life, very different from the penalty of sin:
By tradition Tyndale's death is commemorated on 6 October. [15] There are commemorations on this date in the church calendars of members of the Anglican Communion, initially as one of the "days of optional devotion" in the American Book of Common Prayer (1979), [60] and a "black-letter day" in the Church of England's Alternative Service Book. [61]
[26]: 59 In 1615 James knighted him and 8 years later he was the first commoner in more than a century to be elevated to a dukedom - as Duke of Buckingham - although he had first been raised in sequence as a Knight of the Garter and Viscount Villiers, as Earl of Buckingham then Marquess of Buckingham.
Often, alliances could be created between countries or strengthened within a country through intermarriage of two royal families. On the other hand, occasionally a member of a royal family married a commoner simply due to romantic feelings or physical attraction, and possibly to endear themselves to the general population by establishing that ...
Title page of an Amadís de Gaula romance of 1533. A knight-errant [1] (or knight errant [2]) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels (pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.
Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513. In the New Testament, the Book of Mark indicates that the advance of the gospel may precede and foretell the apocalypse. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] The colour white also tends to represent righteousness in the Bible, and Christ is portrayed as a conqueror in other instances.
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, [F: poore] The pangs of despised Love, the law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d]
Martin Luther rejected this verse as a forgery and excluded it from his German translation of the Bible while he lived – it was inserted into the text by other hands after his death. [58] The first appearance of the Comma in the main text of a Greek New Testament manuscript is no earlier than the 15th century.