See passages such as Numbers 16:3, Numbers 20:4, Deuteronomy 23:1, and 1 Chronicles 28:8. iii. Because church was a secular term (referring to “the gatherings of the citizenry in a city-state to discuss and decide on matters of public interest” [Mare]), Paul calls the gathering ...
i. You devour men: The figure of speech uses the words spoken by the unfaithful spies in Numbers – that it was a land that devours its inhabitants (Numbers 13:32). ii. “In a sense the land of promise was a bereaver of the nation, for it was subject, through the chastisements of...
We do not mention the word ‘valuable’ here, since this condition can be considered somewhat tautological: ‘valuable’ is defined ex post (Priem & Butler,2001). Some of the bustling airports served today by the airline Ryanair were forlorn and decrepit out-of-the-way landing fields before ...
ii. “Healing throughout the Old Testament has a mixture of spiritual and physical applications. Sometimes healing is specifically equated with forgiveness (e.g.Hosea 14:4;Isaiah 53:5,57:18-19;Psalm 41:4); at other times it relates to physical healing (e.g.Genesis 20:17;Numbers 12:13;...
In Jewish law, it was the mark of adultery (Numbers 5:11-31). In the Greek world, it could be the mark of a prostitute or lesbian. f. If it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered: Among the Corinthian Christians, there were probably certain “spiritual...
(1.1)). Tasks include assessments of Immediate Word Recall, Pattern Separation (part 1 and 2), Simple Reaction Time, Digit Vigilance, Choice Reaction Time, Spatial Working Memory, Numeric Working Memory, Delayed Word Recall, Word Recognition, and Grammatical Reasoning. Tasks were shown in a ...
Accordingly, the final 100 km into the city of Santiago may be experienced as the busiest section of the pilgrimage route in terms of numbers of pilgrims. 2.3. The Research Process The curiosities of my investigation were the embodied experience of the pilgrims, the meaning of that embodiment ...