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Blue chalcedony intaglio of a woman (Greek) Namibian "blue lace agate", a common trade name for Namibian blue chalcedony. Blue Chalcedony - Hebrew יָשְׁפֶה yošp̄e, Greek ἴασπις iaspis, Latin jaspis; the twelfth stone of the breastplate (Exodus 28:18, 39:11), representing the tribe of Benjamin. In the Greek and Latin texts ...
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
Works of Love (Danish: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works.
However, Strong's Concordance and Thayer's Greek Lexicon describe this as a stone of the colour of the hyacinth plant, i.e. dark blue. [8] The stone intended may be the sapphire . [ 9 ] In Revelation 9:17, the word appears in adjective form ( hyakinthinous , "hyacinthine"); [ 10 ] this, again, is thought to be descriptive of a blue or purple ...
The Old Testament uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In Genesis 19, God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with a rain of fire and brimstone (Hebrew: גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ), and in Deuteronomy 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God.
Deus caritas est (English: "God is Love"), subtitled De Christiano Amore (Of Christian Love), is a 2005 encyclical, the first written by Pope Benedict XVI, in large part derived from writings by his late predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Its subject is love, as seen from a Christian perspective, and God's place within all love.
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Illustration of Jacob's dream in the Book of Genesis Supposed site of Jacob's rest in Beit El, Binyamin district, as theorised by Zev Vilnay. The Stone of Jacob appears in the Book of Genesis as the stone used as a pillow by the Israelite patriarch Jacob at the place later called Bet-El. As Jacob had a vision in his sleep, he then consecrated ...