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The divine countenance is the face of God. ... [17] in the Book of Daniel is the nearest approach to a physical description of God in the Hebrew Bible: [18] ...
The hypocrite destroys his face, in order that he may feign sorrow, and with a heart full of joy wears sorrow in his countenance. [2] Gregory the Great: For by the pale countenance, the trembling limbs, and the bursting sighs, and by all so great toil and trouble, nothing is in the mind but the esteem of men. [2]
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: His appearance was bright as lightning, and his clothing is white as snow. [a]
Prosopon is the form in which hypostasis appears. Every hypostasis has its own prosopon: face or countenance. It gives expression to the reality of the hypostasis with its powers and characteristics. [10] [11] Paul the Apostle uses the term when speaking of his direct apprehension in the heart of the face (prosopon) of Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6).
Countenance is a synonym for face or facial expression, but may also refer to: Look up countenance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Countenance divine , or divine countenance , a reference to the literal or metaphorical "face of God"
At about the same time that Calvinists and Arminians were debating the meaning of grace in Protestantism, in Catholicism a similar debate was taking place between the Jansenists and the Jesuits. Cornelius Jansen 's 1640 work Augustinus sought to refocus Catholic theology on the themes of original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine ...
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Psalm 42 is the 42nd psalm of the Book of Psalms, often known in English by its incipit, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks" (in the King James Version).The Book of Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.