of Biblical literature. Historically, exegetes have recognized four levels of meaning in the Bible: the historical or literal, the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogical or mystical, putting emphasis on the necessity of a foundation for the latter three in the literal sense. —exegete,n....
The meaning of a Bible in a dream often depends on one’s religious upbringing. Can indicate insight (revealed knowledge), “good news,” tradition, or even intolerance (“Bible thumpers”). The Bible is often used metaphorically to describe authoritative publications in other realms, as in th...
Symbolic MeaningBiblical References Temptation and SinGenesis 3, Numbers 21 Sharp tongue and WordsPsalms 140:3;Job 20:16 Associates with FallingEcclesiastes 10:8 Divination (Spirit of Python)Acts 16:16 IdolatryNumbers 21 Lies and False BeliefGenesis 3,Psalms 140:3 ...
The images of the gods, rather than the desire of shelter for the worshipper, gave rise to the temples, which were houses of a divinity; thus ναός is a god's dwelling, from a root meaning to dwell, and cedes, in Latin, in the singular is usually a temple, but in the ...
Of course, this does not make any sense, but this is what the guru, John Walton, would have us believe from p50 of his book The Lost World of Genesis, where he says: “the meaning of the repeated formula ‘it was good’, which I propose refers to functioning properly…functional readi...
— We need not wonder, accordingly, to find that this is the predominant meaning of the word as it appears in the N.T. The noun, and the verb derived from it (μαγεία and μαγεύω), are used by Luke in describing the impostor, who is therefore known distinctively as...
THE LORD/ALLAH IS THE DEVIL/SATAN, THE EXOTERIC DEITY OF FREEMASONSThe end-times religious cult leaders are so excited about the meaning of 666 as it relates to the famous verse in the Apocalypse or Book of “Revelation.” So what is the significance of 666? Is it a bar code? Is it...
Viktor Frankl has offered specific psychotherapeutic insights into human meaning that can be considered in the special case of nu... JJ Seeber - 《Journal of Religious Gerontology》 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 Magic, Divination and Demonology among the Hebrews and Their Neighbours, Including an ...
The name "Persia" is not found in the older records of the Bible, but after the Babylonian period it occurs frequently (2Ch 36:20,22; Ezr 4:5 sq.; 6:14 sq.; Es 1:3; Es 8:10; Es 1 Maccabees 1:1), meaning the great Persian kingdom founded by Cyrus. The only passage in ...
It was a strange adaptation of Anacreontic meter to fit it to philosophical and theological songs. Yet it may well be asked what meaning should be attached to the claim of Synesius, in the opening of the seventh hymn, to have been the first to tune his lyre in honor of Jesus. ...