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In the Bible, the word "flesh" is often used simply as a description of the fleshy parts of an animal, including that of human beings, and typically in reference to dietary laws and sacrifice. [1] Less often it is used as a metaphor for familial or kinship relations, and (particularly in the Christian tradition) as a metaphor to describe sinful ...
(Rom. 3:20) In the same sense it is said here that the Word was made flesh; meaning that the Word was made man." [ 9 ] Theophylact of Ohrid : "The Evangelist intends by making mention of the flesh, to show the unspeakable condescension of God, and lead us to admire His compassion, in assuming for our salvation, what was so opposite and ...
The Old Testament consistently uses three primary words to describe the parts of man: basar (flesh), which refers to the external, material aspect of man (mostly in emphasizing human frailty); nephesh, which refers to the soul as well as the whole person or life; and ruach which is used to refer to the human spirit (ruach can mean "wind", "breath", or "spirit" depending on the context; cf ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The New International Version translates the passage as: children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
The noun incarnation derives from the ecclesiastical Latin verb incarno, itself derived from the prefix in-and caro, "flesh", meaning "to make into flesh" or, in the passive, "to be made flesh". The verb incarno does not occur in the Latin Bible but the term is drawn from the Gospel of John 1:14 "et Verbum caro factum est" , King James Version ...
Other biblical passages where "thorn" is used as a metaphor are: [2] Know for a certainty that the L ORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the L ORD your God hath ...
1966, 2001: "and he was the same as God" – The Good News Bible. 1970, 1989: "and what God was, the Word was" – The New English Bible and The Revised English Bible. 1975 "and a god (or, of a divine kind) was the Word" – Das Evangelium nach Johnnes, by Siegfried Schulz, Göttingen, Germany
The Roman Catholic Church has often held mortification of the flesh (literally, "putting the flesh to death"), as a worthy spiritual discipline. The practice is rooted in the Bible: in the asceticism of the Old and New Testament saints, and in its theology, such as the remark by Saint Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, where he states: "If you live a life of nature, you are marked out for ...