It may also be noticed that the glorious appearance ascribed to the angels in Scripture (as in Da 10:6) is the same as that which shone out in our Lord's Transfiguration, and in which John saw Him clothed in heaven (Revelations 1:14-16); and moreover, that whenever angels have been...
Edna, which means pleasure in Hebrew, is yet another of the biblical girl names that are derived from the Hebrew language. Edna is the mother of Sarah and the wife of Raguel in the Book of Tobit, which is found in both the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, and it has a biblical connection...
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect (Hebrews...
This study begins with the analysis of a type of divine appearance in the Old Testament, here called "human theophany", in which God is described as having a concrete human form. The book includes a delineation of various types of anthropomorphism (such as God appearing in concrete human ...
(which they consider sinful to shave off), their uncombed hair, hanging wildly about their neck and shoulders, give them all untidy appearance. In the church alone the popes appear bareheaded; outside they wear a kind of cap or a round hat, with a broad, flat border. A long stick is...
Despite such widely divergent views of Fleischer’s directorial efforts, in 1961, he quietly filmed one of the most moving and well-acted biblical epics that focused not on a major biblical figure but a minor one whose brief appearance is featured in all four Gospels, the title character ...
And the angel of the Lord appeared to [Samson’s mother] and said to her […] Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. ...
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In my latest appearance on the Naked Bible Podcast, I reframe this text in its wider narrative context addressing Luke’s use of scripture to come to quite the opposite conclusion. The content of this episode is based off of a paper I gave in the Synoptic Gospels program unit at the 2015...
Jesus did not abolish the 10 commandments as many like to think, He took them and raised them up a notch. Showing that God does not look at the outside appearance of man but at the heart. Many will say, “I have never murdered anyone.” Jesus said: if you hate your brother, you ...