“So, at last the horny-handed lady comes to her real mission. I feared that‘visiting the sick and imprisoned'was not your proper r1e.What do you want?Money?” The bluntness of his question mined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way. “Don't ...
In the anticommunist purges of the late 1960s, some writers who had participated in left-wing organizations were imprisoned. The most famous is Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a nationalist who had also been imprisoned by the Dutch from 1947 to 1949. He composed books as stories told to fellow ...
Konstantin Päts headed the Estonian Provisional Government (1918–1919), although he was imprisoned during the second half of the German Occupation. In the provisional government, Päts also served as Minister of Internal Affairs (1918) and Minister of War (1918–1919) that left him organizing...
以赛亚书 42:22 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!” ...
enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped.They are fair game for anyone and have no one to protect them, no one to take them back home. 23 Who will hear these lessons from the past and see the ruin that awaits you in the future?24 Who allowed Israel to be robbed and hurt? It was the Lord...
The Conundrum of Joy The book of Philippians is arguably the most joy-filled, joy-commanded book of the Bible. All the more strange when we discover that Paul is writing in a lockdown of his own. Imprisoned in Rome, possibly awaiting execution, his joy abounds. How come?
30Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,31so they too have now become disobedient in order that, through the mercy shown to you, they too may receive mercy.32For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he ma...
Such criminals were willing to take a chance on being caught and imprisoned, but would not take a chance on killing the victim and being executed. " 'Naturally, there can be no statistics produced to demonstrate how many murders were not committed because the would-be perpetrator feared the ...
About 15 people, mostly middle-aged women, sit quietly while Yuri describes the suffering the British writer endured while imprisoned for two years. But Yuri never tells his audience the reason Wilde was imprisoned. He only hints at it — reading the speech Wilde gave at the trial, in which...
About 15 people, mostly middle-aged women, sit quietly while Yuri describes the suffering the British writer endured while imprisoned for two years. But Yuri never tells his audience the reason Wilde was imprisoned. He only hints at it — reading the speech Wilde gave at the trial, in which...