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This might be a reference to the pillar of cloud that guide the Israelites through the wilderness. [1] Fortnas notes that the astronomical theory of the time thought of the stars a points of light moving along a fixed heavenly dome. This made it far easier to imagine a star stopping its motion. [2]
15: Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16: Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. The World English Bible translates the passage as: 15: Neither do you light a lamp, and put it
It is based on the reddish glow of the morning or evening sky, caused by trapped particles scattering the blue light from the sun in a stable air mass. [5] If the morning skies are of an orange-red glow, it signifies a high-pressure air mass with stable air trapping particles, like dust, which scatters the sun's blue light.
The second meaning implies that Jesus, speaking in the open air, pointed to some birds nearby while speaking these lines. Birds of the sky literally translates as "birds in heaven," but this was a common expression for birds in flight through the air and does not imply the birds were with God. There are several debates over this verse.
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”
1. Morning Star, O cheering sight! Ere thou cam’st, how dark earth’s night! Jesus mine, in me shine; fill my heart with light divine. 2. Morning Star, thy glory bright far excels the sun’s clear light. Jesus be, constantly, more than thousand suns to me. 3. Thy glad beams, thou Morning Star, cheer the nations near and far. Thee we own ...
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings; / The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: / Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; / Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished ...
"Keep Your Lamp(s) Trimmed and Burning" is a traditional gospel blues song. It alludes to the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins , found in the Gospel of Matthew at 25:1-13 , and also to a verse in the Gospel of Luke , at 12:35 .