For if, while we were enemiesThis phrase highlights the state of humanity before reconciliation with God. The Greek word for "enemies" (ἐχθροί, echthroi) implies hostility and opposition. In the historical context of the Roman Empire, enemies were often seen as those who were ...
Like a kid who received beatings and wedgies from classmates every day while his brother looked on, Israel never got over the fact that Edom allowed their enemies to ransack them. The Israelites excelled at holding grudges (Amalek, anyone?), so an understanding of Herod’s bloodline will he...
and again put them into his sons’ hands,on which they broke them easily.He then said to them:“My sons,if you are of one mind,and unite to assist each other,you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies;but if you are divided among yourselves,you will...
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. / Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.2 Timothy 3:2-5For men will be ...
Enemies Of St. Romanus Cut His Tongue Out St. Romanus, who in life was a deacon named Romanus of Caesarea, was almost burned to death in 303 or 304 CE. However, Emperor Galerius decided it would be better to cut his tongue out and strangle him to death. Romanus was known as a ...
Judas, the man who became the traitor, is the supreme enigma of the New Testament because it is so hard to see how anyone who was so close to Jesus, who saw so many miracles and heard so much of the Master's teaching could ever betray him into the hands of his enemies. ...
Delilah means "delicate" and "weak" in Hebrew, but the most famous Delilah hardly fits the description. In the Old Testament, she is the lover of Samson, who had great strength rooted in his long hair. Delilah betrayed Samson to his enemies by cutting off his hair. #42. Sarah (girls)...
(9) A miserable and shameful example of what happens to the enemies of the Church. .[277]Θυμομαχεῖν] signifies tofight violently, which may be meant as well of actual war as of other kinds of enmity. See Schweighäuser,Lex. Polyb.p. 303; Kypke, II. p. 63 f.;...
[No cats were harmed in the making of this blog. They all love to be spanked.] Exploring the psychology 'behind' spanking through fiction and poetry. Because, nothing says 'I love you' better than a red, sore, bare bottom. Comments welcome and discussion
Then, on the appointed day, the Jews “smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, anddestruction,and did what they would unto those that hated them, slaying of their foes “seventy and five thousand”. Mordecai then ordered that the fourteenth and fifteenth days of...