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"What the Bible's to the Christian world, the Kural has been and is to the Tamils." [26] (A. Sattanathan, author of foreword to the first Bengali translation of the Kural) Albert Schweitzer "There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find so much of lofty wisdom." [27] [5]
J. B. Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." [5] The Greek word, "κατέλαβεν (katelaben)", is an example of polysemy and can be equally translated as either "understand", "overtake" or "overcome" [6].
Overcoming Life's Disappointments (ISBN 1-4000-3336-5) is a 2006 book by Harold Kushner, a Conservative rabbi. Kushner addresses in the book the question of how to cope when disappointing things happen to you.
You once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh; in addition to "this world" and "passions of our flesh", "the term air often referred to the spiritual realm of angels and ...
Prima scriptura is the Christian doctrine that canonized scripture is "first" or "above all other" sources of divine revelation.Implicitly, this view suggests that, besides canonical scripture, there can be other guides for what a believer should believe and how they should live, such as the Holy Spirit, created order, traditions, charismatic gifts, mystical insight, angelic visitations ...
(London)—1941 No. 10—Life in the New Earth Under New Heavens—1942 No. 11—The People Have a Right to Good News Now—1942 No. 12—The Last War Wins the Peace Eternal—1943 No. 13—Education for Life in the New World—1944 No. 14—Overcoming Fear of What Is Coming on the Earth—1944 No. 15—World Conspiracy Against the Truth—1946
Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture .