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The Strait of Gibraltar [1] is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa. The two continents are separated by 7.7 nautical miles (14.2 kilometers, 8.9 miles) at its narrowest point. [ 2 ]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The World English Bible translates the passage as: How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
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 ...
Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: The World English Bible translates the passage as: Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the
The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from space. Natural Flow over the Camarinal Sill. The Camarinal Sill is the sill separating the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.This threshold is the shallowest seafloor pass between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa.
The Pillars of Hercules [a] are the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The northern Pillar, Calpe Mons, is the Rock of Gibraltar . A corresponding North African peak not being predominant, the identity of the southern Pillar, Abila Mons, has been disputed throughout history, [ 1 ] with the two most likely ...
Barnes' Notes on the Bible identifies the word "the faith" in this context with "the gospel", a view with which Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible agrees, as does the People's New Testament, while Clarke's communion on the Bible remarks that one manuscripts gives, in place of "the faith", "the resurrection of the dead, which is one of the ...