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Ebed-Melech, the Ethiopian [3] Jaabez, the son of Judah ha-Nasi, who was editor of the Mishnah; Pharaoh's daughter, sometimes called Bithiah [4] Four Rabbis Visited Heaven. Four entered the orchard: Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher (i.e., Elisha ben Avuya), and Rabbi Akiva. One looked and died. One looked and was harmed. One looked and cut down the ...
The Three Young Men in the Fiery Furnace (15th century icon of the Novgorod school). The legendary nature of the story is revealed by the liberal use of hyperbole – the size of the statue, the use of every kind of music, the destruction of the executioners, and the king's rage followed by his confession of the superiority of the God of Israel.
Charlie Card, a Bostonian man who in the 1948 song M.T.A. boarded a subway train unaware of a newly-implemented exit fare and therefore couldn't get off, subsisting on one sandwich a day as he performs music for the other passengers. He may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, he's the man who never returned. [14] [15]
Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...
God the Son, Jesus Christ, became man for us, was crucified, died, and rose. [ 11 ] Unbaptized catechumens can be saved, in the Roman Catholic view, because the desire to receive the sacrament of baptism , together with sincere repentance for one's sins and the attainment of "divine and Catholic faith", insures salvation. [ 12 ]
The King James Version translates "magi" as wise men; the same translation is applied to the wise men led by Daniel of earlier Hebrew Scriptures (Daniel 2:48). The same word is given as sorcerer and sorcery when describing " Elymas the sorcerer" in Acts 13:6–11 , and Simon Magus , considered a heretic by the early Church, in Acts 8:9–13 .
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In most cases, Christian authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. [10]In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water).