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A common format for biblical citations is Book chapter:verses, using a colon to delimit chapter from verse, as in: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" ( Gen. 1:1 ). Or, stated more formally, [ 2][ 3][ 4][ a] book chapter:verse1,verse2 for multiple disjoint verses ( John 6:14, 44 ). The range delimiter is an en-dash, and ...
For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...
You (alone) we worship and from You (alone) we seek help. ... is "clearly addressed to God, in the form of a prayer." [142] [141] [143] Other verses (the beginning of 27:91, "I have been commanded to serve the Lord of this city ..."; 19:64, "We come not down save by commandment of thy Lord") also makes no sense as a statement of an all-powerful ...
Justice in the Quran. Justice is a central theme in the Qur’an, dictating the traditions of law and how they should be put into practice. [ 1] There are two ways in which justice operates: in a legal sense and in a divine sense. Regarding justice in the legal sense, the Qur’an tells Muslims not only how to conduct themselves, but is also ...
According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel ( Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven ( Acts 10:11 ). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or ...
William Tyndale ( / ˈtɪndəl /; [ 1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – October 1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known as a translator of most of the Bible into English, and was ...
The evil eye was both an expression for jealousy and for stinginess (cf. Matthew 20:15 [1]). The verse puts great emphasis on the depth of darkness that a poor spiritual eye will place a person in, because placing too much focus on wealth or possessions can distort judgment. [ 2 ]
“Seeing Johnny Storm (if only for a short while) was like seeing someone you miss come back from the dead in a dream. Way too brief and too lovely to be real,” he wrote. “Goodbyes are hard.