But he answering, saith to them: What did Moses command you? Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away. To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God made ...
Since being founded during the 1550s, the monastery has been burnt down and rebuilt, used as a place for political exile, and even as an army base during the Russian Civil War. Nowadays, it is inhabited by one solitary hegumen, who tends to the building and welcomes the rare visitor who...
When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well. / Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s ...
In the last few minutes I looked at one of the questions and figured out the shape and the color but I knew I did not have time to figure out the equation. The dream ended with one or two minutes to go before the test was over. And I had done nothing correctly except identify one...
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was ...
JOHN 3 THOSE WHO HATE THE LIGHT January 13 JOHN 3 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world...
possible angle --- all with more than a little tint of humor thrown in --- then replicate Moses and prepare to walk out of Egypt towards a large body of water where the future is uncertain. But have faith that G-d and three extremely funny men will show you the way to the Promised...
“Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting leg...
“As it developed historically,” Boyarin concludes, “diaspora Jewish culture had little interest in Samson, and its Moses was a scholar. . . even the Maccabees were deprived of their status as military heroes.” As Boyarin himself states, he thinks of his own “sissy” lack of adherence...
These things that you speak or give or do have the power to change the world, beginning with the world that surrounds you. They may seem weak. They may seem insignificant. But the power of Christ dwells within you, as it did within Paul, which makes the love you share more important ...