Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt! King James Bible And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, IamJoseph your...
1In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the...
During this period, Djoser and Cheops built the Great Pyramid, the only remaining seven wonders of the ancient world. The capital of Egypt at this time was Memphis. The Old Kingdom fell due to the regional governors' rising power and a severe drought from 2200 to 2150 BC. Egypt's first...
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff in Kunst und Kunstler (1914) quoted Wolf-Dieter Dube, The Expressionists, p.21 (T&H 1972, transl. Mary Whittall) If a painting hangs in a forest… The three key factors here (for me) are creator-work-recipient. If the artists (Schmidt-Rottluff’s ‘personalities’...
Edmund Campion (1540 - 1581), was a Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. Campion was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 and canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. Campion's feast day is celebrated every 1st of December. He is now known as St. Edmund Campion, S.J. Campion was the son ...
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the famous conqueror and Emperor, himself became an Emperor as Napoleon III. But before he was an Emperor, like his uncle he held an ostensibly democratic position, one that he won by an election. While Napoleon III would end an Emperor, and then a ...
Frankly, this seems to be an awful lot to read into one single verse which says nothing other than that “God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.” The death of an animal is never mentioned. A lamb is never mentioned. Substitutionary atonement isn’t even inferred. ...
1In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the...
The question is not just about why God waited so long to send Jesus, but about all the seeming delays in the redemptive plan of God. That is, why does God “wait” to do anything? Why Does God delay in anything? I mean, if we pray for something, and God knows He is going to ...
Jesus was born, no last name was given. He was simply known as Jesus but not of Joseph, even though he recognized Joseph as his earthly father, he knew a greater father from which he was his loin. But since he was of his mother's womb, he could be referred to as Jesus of Mary....