Polis is the Greek for city; and, like so many things in our civilization, the never-ending debate about the ideal human environment began with the Greeks. To think about the ideal city, as Plato knew, is to think about the desirable, about the not-yet-achieved, about the future. ...
Ancient Mesopotamian religion had little idea of heaven: The dead were doomed to unending gloom and wretchedness in the darkness beneath the earth, with the dubious consolation that the rich and powerful in earthly life would have a less miserable status in the afterlife. In early Greco-Roman ...
被引量: 0发表: 2002年 The city: heaven-on-earth or the hell-to-come? Polis is the Greek for city; and, like so many things in our civilization, the never-ending debate about the ideal human environment began with the Greeks... IF Clarke - 《Futures》 被引量: 8发表: 1992年 ...
Also known as Polos, this son of Ouranos (the Heavens) was probably the god of the northern axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved (the Greeks called this heavenly axis polos). In ancient times this point in the heavens was marked by the star alpha Dra in the ...
And there are three that bear witness on earth The Spirit The Water and the Blood and these three agree as one. Amen! Abigailsaid this onMarch 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm|Reply Abigail, The scripture clearly indicates that Jesus has ascended into heaven, and that He is the firstborn among men...
This would mean there would be a large number or a multitude of people whose physical seed had been contaminated with the seed of the serpent. Gen 6:1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, ...
Underthecloudyvaultofheaven,asmallboatwassailingonthesea. 在阴暗的天穹下,一叶小舟在海上航行。 dict.veduchina.com 10. Godputthese lightsinthevaultofheaventogivelightonearth,to governdayandnight,and toseparatelightfromdarkness; 上帝把日月星辰置于天穹之中以照亮大地,司昼夜、分明暗。
Allergic reactions certainly seemed to be part of life in the ancient world. There are descriptions document by the Greeks and the Romans. Medical advances centuries later led to increased research into the phenomenon. In the early 19th Century, Dr. John Bostock described hay fever that remains ...
Nirvana, idyll, paradise, heaven on earth, and Utopia what do all these words have in common? They are an idea, a figment of our imagination, something we can only aspire to achieve. Even the Greeks knew it; the Greek translation for Utopia is “not place” or “no place” as in a...
Yet the Jews really had no concept of eternal life in heaven. Oh, they believed in Sheol (aka Hades) but the shadowy, underworld existence of departed souls could not properly be called “life.” For the Jews, unlike the Greeks and Egyptians, the soul really could not have true existence...