The following incidents, recorded in scripture and legend, constitute the seven great sorrows of Mary's life: the prophecy she received from Simeon (Luke 2:3-35), the flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:14), the loss of the child Jesus in Jerusalem (Luke 2:43-49), the sight of her son on...
in the announcement and the timing, i.e., that Moses would predict this blow, and in the magnitude of it all, which was not natural (Greta Hort, “The Plagues of Egypt,”ZAW69 [1957]: 95-98). It is also important to note that in parts of Egypt there was a fear of these ...
IV. The Seven Seals, Trumpets, and Plagues, with Interludes Chapter 6 - The First Six Seals. Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of
2– Bernard Avishai, an economist and journalist on the left, has long raised the issue of the economic threat to Israel from the BDS movement and how the current government’s policies will kill the golden goose of Israel’s high-tech miracle.His recent column in The New Yorkeroffers a a...