It intersects with factors like gender, age, disability, and socio-economic status, notably in the context of slavery. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar's story, particularly Genesis 16, highlights the link between slavery and fertility. This study examines John Chrysostom's interpretation ...
Some of the names you find in this little list of mine may end up surprising you asnames like Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, and similar all stem from some part of religious culture. And I’m here to help show you the meanings behind them all. If anything, it’ll help you pick one that...
Rachel, Rebecca, Reuben, Ruth, Salome, Samson, Samuel, Sarah, Saul, Seth, Shadrach, Shem, Simeon, Simon, Solomon, Susanna, Tetragrammaton, ThaddeusorThadeus, Thomas, Tobit, Tubal-cain, Uriah, Virgin Mary, Zacharias, Zachariah,orZachary, Zebedee, Zebulun, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah, Zilpah...
St. Paul and Philo, it is well known, have both treated the history of Hagar and Sarah allegorically (comp. Ga 4:22-31 with Philo, De Congressu, pages 1-5 [Richter, 3:71-76; Bohn, 2:157-162]; and see Lightfoot, Epist. to Gal. pages 189-191; and Howson's Hagar and Arabia...
as when Paul illustrates the relationship between law and gospel by the story of Hagar and Sarah, the concubine and wife of Abraham, respectively (Galatians 4:21–31), or when Israel’s tabernacle in the wilderness becomes the material counterpart to the heavenly sanctuary in which believers of...
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...
Hagar part 3 leave a comment » Part 1,part 2. But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised...
Before Ishmael was born, Abraham neglected Hagar and let Sarah turf her out: 6“Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.(Genesis 16)
Thus, e.g., when it is said, Ge 21:1, "And the Lord visited (שרה את) Sarah; the superfluous את, which sometimes denotes with, is used to indicate that with Sarah the Lord also visited other barren women. The second, גם, is used superfluously in the ...
to the story of redemption; to the promise given to Abraham, and renewed to Isaac and to Jacob, and to all that chain of circumstances which paved the way for the great symbolic act of Redemption, when with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm Jehovah brought his people out of Egypt....