Luke 23.34a was added in order that there be seven sayings and not six that Jesus spoke from the cross. This issue arose as the four Gospels were collected together and read as one narrative of the life, ministry, and passion of Jesus.Whitlark...
Jesus is announcing that He is the beginning and the end at the same time He lists the seven churches in the order they appear in Revelation 2 & 3--this could suggest that there may be a beginning and an ending connection with those churches. He also states the message of the Book of...
Nicole Clifton (Northern Illinois University) The Seven Sages of Rome, Children's Literature, and the Auchinleck Manuscript Prelude: the Pervasive Aries "Childhood, as we now think of that period between infancy and adulthood, is an invention of the eighteenth century in those very few countries ...