The article explores the aspects between the moral excellence of righteous anger and the sin of wrath. It provides an overview on the content of the book "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer which depicts the many symptoms of the sin of wrath such as uncontrollable arguing and offensive ...
cardinal sin (redirected fromthe cardinal sin of) A major violation of some principle, tenet, doctrine, etc. Often used humorously. The term is a reference to the seven deadly sins, a group of vices (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth) that originated in Christian theol...
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”Revelation 18:1-4 NKJV ...
To blaspheme the earth is now the dreadfulest sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! Once the soul looked contemptuously on the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing:- the soul wished the body meagre, ghastly, and famished. ...
Original sin, also described as ancestral sin, is a Christian view of the nature of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man. Original sin arose from Adam and Eve's transgression in Eden, the sin of disobedience in eating the forbidden fru
For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him. His eyes turned blood-shot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend. So changed was he that the ...
"Perhaps," Montanelli answered gently, "you do not quite realize the meaning of what you just said. You will see differently in a few years. Meanwhile we had better talk about something else." It was the first break in the perfect ease and harmony that re igned between the...
The wrath of the Erinyes manifested itself in a number of ways. The most severe of these was the tormenting madness inflicted upon a patricide or matricide. Murderers might suffer illness or disease; and a nation harbouring such a criminal, could suffer dearth, and with it hunger and diseas...
Rhetorical Analysis Preacher Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God,” frightens the audience with vivid depictions of Hell and God’s wrath. Through the use of polysyndeton, asyndeton, and constant repetition, Edwards persuades the sinners in his congregation to...
Israel could suffer the wrath of God, but they could not fall out of His hands. As H. H. Farmer once put it, “We may sin ourselves into the wrath of God, but we cannot sin ourselves out of the love of God” (cf. Ps 89:28-37, esp. vv. 32, 33). What, then, is the fu...