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The prophecy foretells three days and nights of "an intense darkness" [2] over the whole earth, against which the only light will come from blessed beeswax candles, and during which "all the enemies of the Church ... will perish." [2] The prophecy parallels one of the Ten Plagues against Egypt in the Book of Exodus (Ex. 10:21–29). [3]
The costume consists of a leather hat, mask with glass eyes and a beak, stick to remove clothes of a plague victim, gloves, waxed linen robe, and boots. [2] The typical mask had glass openings for the eyes and a curved beak shaped like a bird's beak with straps that held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. [5]
Plagues of Egypt. In the Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt (Hebrew: מכות מצרים) are ten disasters that Yahweh inflicts on the Egyptians to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting the Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [1] they serve as "signs and marvels" given by Yahweh in response to ...
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"Plague!" A reference to any of the Ten Plagues. "Darkness three days long" The ninth plague of Egypt, during which the sun was blotted out for three days and darkness fell over all of Egypt. "Hail to fire" The seventh plague of Egypt, during which burning hail rained from the skies over Egypt. "Blood, lamb's blood painted door; I shall pass"
Plague (disease) Yersinia pestis seen at 200× magnification with a fluorescent label. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [2] Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. [1] Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. [2] There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the ...
Septicemic plague is one of the three forms of plague, and is caused by Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative species of bacterium. Septicemic plague is a systemic disease involving infection of the blood and is most commonly spread by bites from infected fleas. Septicemic plague can cause disseminated intravascular coagulation and is always fatal ...
[10] Relative to other literature, the Apocalypse appears to postdate the Book of Jubilees, but it is also known to the author and was quoted by the author of the Clementine Recognitions i. 32–33, a text composed in the mid-fourth century and acting as the earliest extant source that can be reliably said to have known of the Apocalypse. [11]