No direct and visible appearance to man is even hinted at. (See Rawson, Holy Angels, N.Y. 1858.) (2.) In the Book of Genesis there is no notice of angelic appearances till after the call of Abraham. Then, as the book is the history of the chosen family, so the angels mingle ...
Historians believe the Behemoth could have been modeled on, or even be a hyperbolic description of, an elephant or hippopotamus. 825 votes Biblical terror? 9 Dragons Photo: Bernat Martorell Public Domain "And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound ...
At this time the angel Gabriel came to her with a message from God,. and announced to her that she was to be the mother of the long-expected Messiah. He probably bore the form of an ordinary man, like the angels who manifested themselves to Gideon and to Manoah (Jg 6; Jg 13). ...
Revelation 12 talks about Michael and the other angels fighting the dragon and his angels. So the idea of Satan being a fallen angel is – at minimum – consistent with the Protestant Bible. This is a topic on which other books not included in the Protestant Bible (such as Enoch) certainl...
Philo of Alexandria, the first century Jewish sage, philosopher, and exegete, perhaps known most famously in Christian circles as the great allegorizer of Israel’s scripture whose methods were taken up by the Alexandrian fathers of the church, has an important description of the ethics of the...
The aim of the present paper is to describe the Biblical Hebrew clause as a locus of interpersonal meanings from a systemic functional perspective. Although systemic functional linguistics has been applied to the description of an increasing number of la
Satan is master of illusion. Though pure evil, he can give the appearance of an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14). The devil can make the righteous feel outnumbered, outgunned, and overpowered, when such is not the case at all. He can talk Christians into surrendering on his terms by ge...
Calendars are powerful political, religious and social tools. Their symbolism incorporates spiritual, temporal, cosmological, celestial, numerical and agricultural truths, often in the guise of cultural myth. The authority ancient kings, carried througho
Salvian seems to give an exact description of the habit and tonsure of the monks when, reflecting on the Africans for their treatment of them, he says, "they could scarce ever see a man with short hair, a pale face, and habited in a pallium, without reviling and bestowing some ...
1. Biblical Description. — The name was originally applied to "the garden of Eden" (Ge 2:8; Ge 4:16,; comp. 2:8), from the name of the region in which it lay; an Eastern country, the first dwelling-place of the human race. It was watered by a river which passed out from ...