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Hosea declares that unless they repent of these sins, God will allow their nation to be destroyed, and the people will be taken into captivity by Assyria, [6] the greatest nation of the time. The prophecy of Hosea centers on God's unending love towards a sinful Israel. In this text, God's agony is expressed over his betrayal by Israel.
Here you have, 1. A recommendation of God's ordinance of marriage, that it is honourable in all, … 2. A dreadful but just censure of impurity and lewdness." [37] John Wesley believed this scripture and the sure judgment of God, even though adulterers "frequently escape the sentence of men." [38]
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
The negative reward (recompense) for the unfaithful servant likely speaks of some negative dealing by Christ with an unfaithful believer. [3] The poet John Milton was fascinated by the parable (interpreted in this traditional sense), [19] referring to it repeatedly, notably in the sonnet "When I Consider How My Light is Spent": [19]
Being willfully ignorant. If the information is there, and you're told it's there and how to access it, why would you intentionally avoid it? ... Why people believe in a god. #32. ... Cheating on ...
The most accept theory of the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are that they are based upon a single writer whose original verse is that of Mark, with Matthew being the most intended to communicate with the Jewish community. Some scholars feel that in Matthew 5:32 Jesus is endorsing the view of Shammai over Hillel, and arguing for ...
Gustave Doré, The Baptism of Infidels. An infidel (literally "unfaithful") is a person who is accused of disbelief in the central tenets of one's own religion, such as members of another religion, or irreligious people.
Etching by Jan Luyken illustrating the parable, from the Bowyer Bible.. The Parable of the Faithful Servant (or Parable of the Door Keeper) is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 24:42-51, Mark 13:34-37, and Luke 12:35-48 about how it is important for the faithful to keep watch.