Michael is unarmed; he holds a balance, and in each scale a little naked figure representing the souls; the beato usually joins the hands as in thankfulness, while the rejected one expresses horror in look and attitude. Frequently a daemon is seizing the falling scale with a Plutonic hook, ...
Immediately on her entrance into the house she was saluted by Elisabeth as the mother of her Lord, and had evidence of the truth of the angel's saying with regard to her cousin. She embodied her feelings of exultation and thankfulness in the hymn known ulnler the name of the Magnificat....
Proponents of this teaching point to various verses and passages that suggest that the Israelites would spread throughout the world and become a great nation, with many descendants. They also point to prophecies of blessings and prosperity that were promised to the Israelites, which they believe ha...
I would then go back over all the verses marked for a topic like prayer, reading them in sequence. On Saturday, November 7, 1953, meditating on the Bible passages I had been reading, I focused on John 5:24, and realized that though I had gone to Sunday school at Highland Park ...
As you will see in one of the Scripture verses below, Satan was one of the highest of all the angels God has ever created. He was allowed to literally walk on the mountain of God the Father Himself. He thus had to know how awesome and how powerful God the Father really is and that...
Their cult was simple, consisting in processions, religious chants and hymns, and a few plain offerings, expressions of devotion and thankfulness. Such was the worship and such the belief which the whole Arian race brought with them from the remote east when they migrated westward. Their ...
1. Properly and simply מִתִּן, mattan', a gratuity (Pr 19:6), to secure favor (Pr 18:16; Pr 21:14), in religious thankfulness (Nu 18:11), or in dowry (Ge 4:12). From the same root (נָתִן, nathan', to bestow, in the widest sense) are also ...
They are distributed in strophes of three verses each, characterized by a certain regularity of structure. The first four commence with a "Woe!" and close with a verse beginning with כַּי (for). The first verse of each of these contains the character of the sin, the second ...