In the Bible, fire represents testing and purity. In many references, fire is used to test one's devotion to God and their own salvation. God appears... Learn more about this topic: The Bible and Literature from Chapter 17/ Lesson 11 ...
“I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! Translations from AramaicLamsa BibleI came to set the earth on fire; and I wish to do it, if it has not already been kindled.Aramaic Bible in Plain English“I have come to set fire to the earth, and...
The imagery of fire is significant in biblical literature, often symbolizing God's presence, purity, and judgment. In Jeremiah's context, the fire represents the irresistible and consuming nature of God's word. This metaphor echoes other scriptural instances where God's word is likened to fire...
Our dummy for nones includes only respondents identifying their religion as “nothing in particular” because previous research shows that identification as an atheist or agnostic is an affirmative secular identity, while “nothing in particular” represents the passive absence of an affiliation (Layman...
the almost improvisational, free-jazz bent of “Tunnel at the End of Light” reminded me of Rea’s defunct project Iron Kim Style, while Moraine (and King Crimson circaStarless and Bible Black) are evoked in the riveting “Torture Chamber of Commerce”, where melody and dissonance clash and...
It is rather remarkable that this writer after such a correct exposition of the language, should affirm that the picture represents, dreadful and eternal sufferings. Putrid decaying carcasses, the image , of dreadful and eternal suffering! The worm luxuriating on a painless corpse, an image of ...
symbolism in their mythology became a way to explain the reasons of the world: Zeus’s fury represents thunders, Aphrodite represents sexual desire, and Apollo represents culture. That is to say, the level of gravity that Greek people treated the stories was different from modern people’s perce...
Proverbs 6:27 sn“Fire” provides the analogy for the sage’s warning: Fire represents the sinful woman (hypocatastasis) drawn close, and the burning of the clothes the inevitable consequences of the liaison. See J. L. Crenshaw, “Impossible Questions, Sayings, and Tasks,” Semeia 17 (1980...
In The Jungle Book, a short story collection by English author Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli is placed in a difficult situation when Shere Khan turns some of the wolves in Mowgli's pack against him. He lacks the physical strength to defend himself, so he has to turn to human tricks to survive...
Attorney Mark Zaid, who represents eight of the people named, posted on X Monday evening that “few” of the former government officials named in the order “even maintain current eligibility or access to classified info,” and that by law, “revoked clearances enti...