When he finally comes to his senses after reducing himself to poverty, he makes plans to return to his father and formulates a proposal that he will deliver upon his return; he is going to confess his sin and declare that he is no longer worthy to be called “his son” and will ask ...
His guards carry off Antigone and Ismene, and he is about to seize Oedipus too when Theseus arrives. The Theban force is defeated and the girls rescued. Polynices enters. He too wants the presence and help of Oedipus in his planned attack on Thebes, whose throne had been unlawfully ...
In the passage with which the treatise closes we have one of the writer's contrasts. "God hath raised up to me" is contrasted with the folly and impiety of Lot and his daughters, 'Counsel' and 'Consent,' and with Rachel's faulty cry to Jacob, "Give me children." As she learned fr...
Christ as Head, so the faction of the impious and impiety itself are depicted for us together with their prince who holds supreme sway over them. For this reason, it was said: "Depart. . . . you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" [Matt. 25:41]....
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Young's Literal Translation (YLT) by Pu...
reigns. "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain, waiting." Yes, waiting; waiting the coming of Him who brings healing and life and fruitfulness with Him; to welcome whose arrival all creatures will shout for joy, for there shall be no more curse. His presence will bless us ...
Nay, she went further: she held that the universe—including human communities—was evolving in accordance with a divine plan; that it was man's business to endeavour to understand this plan and guide his actions in sympathy with it. But to understand God's thoughts, she held we must ...
3.The sensitive conscience and tender sympathy of the recluse are also his. Contrast his manifestation of feeling with that of Nehemiah when confronted with glaring impiety (ch. 9.;Nehemiah 13.). Nehemiah is indignant, Ezra is overwhelmed. Nehemiah "contends," Ezra weeps. Nehemiah curses the ...
Footnote 49In the Levant Company, preachers also had to deal with a strong Catholic presence, whilst in Aleppo, Robert Frampton ‘had often occasion to show his learning in defence of the Church of England’, especially after making the acquaintance of a Jesuit Georgio Rihelio, resident at ...
Oh, may he bring salvation in his hands and deal a death to all disease. [The PRIEST disperses the suppliants. The CHORUS of Theban Elders enters] ODE OF ENTRY [The first ode opens with a hymn to Apollo, the god of victory and healing (known as Paean). Its stately dactylic measure...