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A close parallel just before Pascal's time occurred in the Jesuit Antoine Sirmond's On the Immortality of the Soul (1635), which explicitly compared the choice of religion to playing dice and argued "However long and happy the space of this life may be, while ever you place it in the other pan of the balance against a blessed and flourishing ...
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. [4] Luke has a similar episode and states that: When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy. Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven!
He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. " ' "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you ...
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Nolland comments that it shares with that parable the notions of "good fortune and demanding action in attaining the kingdom of heaven", [6] but adds in this case the notion of "diligent seeking". [6] The valuable pearl is the "deal of a lifetime" [6] for the merchant in the story. However, those who do not believe in the kingdom of heaven ...
Parti claims to provide "rare details of heaven, hell, the afterlife, and angels." According to Parti, during his near-death experience he encountered "archangels" and his deceased father who ...
Gundry notes that some other explanations have been advanced. Salt was extremely valuable and unscrupulous merchants may have replaced the salt with other substances. For some purposes gypsum was added to salt, but this would erase its flavour and make it unfit for consumption. [20] Albert Barnes, in his Notes on the Bible (1834) says: