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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The World English Bible translates the passage as: How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
He further writes that, "the devil, therefore, made this woman crooked and bent, to compel her always to look down upon the earth." [ 3 ] John McEvilly writes that the verb "loosed" (gk: λύω) [ 4 ] is used in this passage because previously her sinews and muscles had been contracted, while after the cure, "immediately she was straight ...
"I am the Voice, etc." comes from Isaiah 40:3.Witham expands the meaning as: "I am a servant, and prepare paths, your hearts, for the Lord. I come, he says, to say that He is at the doors who is expected, that you may be prepared to go whithersoever He may bid you.” [1] MacEvilly notes that, "Having already declared what he was not, he now declares in very distinct terms, what he was, thus ...
[26]: 439 Andrew of Crete relates that Christ was bent or even crooked, [26]: 412 and in the non-canonical Acts of John, he is described as bald-headed and small with no good looks. [ 30 ] As quoted by Eisler, [ 26 ] : 393–394, 414–415 both Hierosolymitanus and John of Damascus claim that "the Jew Josephus" described Jesus as having had ...
To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means "being the knowing" rather than "being the reaction'' and the judge. [7] Relinquishing judgement is, in this sense, about not imbuing reality with dualistic concepts that distract you from the singular reality of the present ...
Paul Prather: My mystical experiences have changed me irrevocably. I quit being an atheist. But I also never believed again in that awful, sinner-hating God I was weaned on.
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 ...
SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times Today's Wordle Answer for #1260 on Saturday, November 30, 2024