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He said, "Jacob will not be said as your name anymore, but Israel, for you struggled with God and with men, and you are capable!" Jacob asked, and said, "Now, reveal your name!" He said, "Why is this, you ask for my name?" He blessed him there. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face-to-face, and my soul survives."
Soldiers of Christ, Arise. " Soldiers of Christ, Arise " is an 18th-century English hymn. The words were written by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), [ 1] and the first line ("Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put your armour on") refers to the armour of God in Ephesians 6:10–18. [ 2][ 3]
The generally known form of the song appears to have been based on an earlier version, "The Religious Turncoat; Or, the Trimming Parson". The melody is taken from the 17th-century folk melody "Country Gardens" which in turn was used in The Quaker's Opera, first printed in London in 1728, a three-act farce based on the story of Jack Sheppard which was performed at Bartholomew Fair.
Original text. The poem, like many of Oliver St. John Gogarty 's humorous verses, was written for the private amusement of his friends. In the summer of 1905, he sent a copy to James Joyce, then living in Trieste, via their common acquaintance Vincent Cosgrave. Joyce and Gogarty had quarreled the previous autumn, and Cosgrave presented the poem ...
I am going to the Lordy at Wikisource. "I Am Going to the Lordy", alternatively titled "Simplicity", is a poem written by Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of U.S. President James A. Garfield. He wrote it on June 30, 1882, the morning of his execution. He read it at the gallows . "I Am Going to the Lordy" was used as a base for the song "The ...
Argus Panoptes ( Ἄργος Πανόπτης) was the guardian of the heifer - nymph Io and the son of Arestor. According to Asclepiades, Argus Panoptes was a son of Inachus, and according to Cercops he was a son of Argus and Ismene, daughter of Asopus. Acusilaus says that he was earth-born ( authochthon ), born from Gaia. [ 1]
A− [ 2] Volcanic Action of My Soul is a studio album by American singer and pianist Ray Charles. It was released in April 1971 by Tangerine Records .
Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are ...