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96. " Through a Glass, Darkly " is a poem by American general George S. Patton, which explores Patton's strong beliefs in Christianity and reincarnation through stories of his previous lives and deaths in combat during historic battles. [ 1] Patton questions whether he may have participated in the Crucifixion of Jesus, imagines previous lives ...
t. e. The First Epistle to the Corinthians [a] ( Ancient Greek: Α΄ ᾽Επιστολὴ πρὸς Κορινθίους) is one of the Pauline epistles, part of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author, Sosthenes, and is addressed to the Christian church in Corinth. [3] Despite the ...
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 ...
The Blinded Bird. " The Blinded Bird " is a 1916 poem written by English author and poet Thomas Hardy . The poem was reportedly written as a protest against Vinkensport, a sort of singing competition between male finches. [1] The poem decries the prior historical practice of blinding birds to improve their performance at the sport.
Thorn in the flesh is a phrase of New Testament origin used to describe an annoyance, or trouble in one's life, drawn from Paul the Apostle 's use of the phrase in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians 12:7–9: [1] And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh ...
For 2 Corinthians 13:14, the KJV has: 12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. In some translations, verse 13 is combined with verse 12, leaving verse 14 renumbered as verse 13. [149]
Textual variants in the First Epistle to the Corinthians are the subject of the study called textual criticism of the New Testament. Textual variants in manuscripts arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to a text that is being reproduced. An abbreviated list of textual variants in this particular book is given in this ...
O. Given selected works, students will propose reasons why love. is a legitimate source of inspiration in the creation of. these works. P. After having read selected works, students will propose reasons