A vast number of pilgrims came from the middleclass,like those in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:some military men, a doctor, a lawyer, an estate agent, a scholar, a miller, a yeoman, some artisans, a prioress, an epicurean monk, a beggar, and a pardoner, although the last two really belo...
In the Bible you find Delila, Judith; in fables we find Omphale, Helen; in history the Sabines, Cleopatra and many others. Therefore we reign supreme, all-powerful. But, like kings, we must make use of delicate diplomacy. Love, my dear, is made up of imperceptible sensations. We know...
There was rich man dressed in fine linen Living in luxury though he was sinnin At his gate lay a beggar, Lazarus by name Covered with sores being treated with shame He wanted to eat crumbs from the rich man's table. Even dogs licked his sore, for he was not able. Then the time ca...
Imagine the ragged little blind beggar carefully sensing his way to his place by the city gate. 这个破衣烂衫的讨饭瞎子小心翼翼地来到耶利哥城门口。 There he would sit all day, holding out his beggar's cup to any who passed in and out of the city. 在那里他要坐上一整天, 举著他的讨饭...
In medieval times, the Beggar’s Gate likely stood on this site, earning its name from the prisoners and beggars who frequented this area, possibly begging as well. After the Ottoman occupation, the reconstructed gate on this side of the Buda Castle served as an entrance to the fortress. ...
A Lame Beggar Healed at the Temple - Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man was
Imagine you are a cold, hungry, thirsty, and starving homeless beggar. Imagine that are walking down an unfamiliar street and hear someone outside of a mission house saying loudly to the passerbys: “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy ...
Sheol in the Bible is the intermediate state of unbelievers. It may also be referred to as Hades or Purgatory. It is no the same as hell (lake of fire).
Second, in Jesus’ parable about the rich man and the poor beggar Lazaruz, the latter wascarried by angelsto heaven[5]. Looks like we’ll have plenty of company. But the journey from earth to heaven won’t be very long anyway. To be absent from the body is to be present with God...
"In two years he was a ruined man. He'd lost everything he'd saved in a quarter of a century. I broke him, and at last he was forced to come to me like a beggar and beseech me to give him a passage back to Sydney." "I wish you could have seen him when he c...