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censures ' Scævola saying and acknowledging expedire civitates religione falli, that it was a fit thing [that] cities should be deceived by religion, according to the diverb, Si mundus vult decipi, decipiatur, if the world will be gulled, let it be gulled, 'tis good howsoever to keep it in subjection."
A tableau from the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony has prompted controversy among the Christian community, who thought the scene resembled "The Last Supper."
The word empaizein is variously translated as deceived or mocked; in reality, Brown notes that the word is a combination of the two ideas and has no direct English translation. [ 2 ] Clarke notes that the description of Herod as "exceeding wroth" has been central to Herod's perception and was the foundation for how the king was portrayed in the ...
The book sold well and received mixed reviews, with some critics finding historical inaccuracies in the text and some finding the book highly important. The title of the book negates the Muslim affirmation Allahu akbar, which translates as "God is great". [2] [3]
They taught about God, but did not love God: they did not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves, nor did they let others enter. They preached God but converted people to dead religion. They taught that an oath sworn by the temple or altar was not binding, but that if sworn by the gold ornamentation of the temple, or by a sacrificial gift on ...
Works of Love (Danish: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works.
Poet: Because the world, which has so mocked me, will then associate you with me, and you will find yourself by association. [ 14 ] This reading is also possible, as the speaker in other sonnets did speak of his name having a stigma attached to it (Sonnet 111), of being despised and disgraced by men (Sonnet 29), and also of being battered and ...
Larkin's three most popular and celebrated collections (The Less Deceived, The Witsun Weddings, and The High Window) fall in the first part of the book, but account for just 85 poems, with 87 poems uncollected (or appearing only in the privately printed XX Poems) of which 61 were previously unpublished, a handful of which were clearly unfinished.