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  2. A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms - Wikipedia

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    In the background, it shows a scene from the biblical theme of the flight into Egypt, [6] where the Virgin Mary is seen stopped on the road, giving alms to the poor. [3] Thus, although the painting seems to be at first sight an ordinary still life concentrating on foodstuffs, it is rich with symbolism ; it in fact hides a symbolic religious ...

  3. Matthew 6:2 - Wikipedia

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    There were three main displays of piety in Jesus' era: alms giving, prayer, and fasting. All three are discussed in Matthew 6, with this verse beginning the discussion of alms giving, though some translations have Matthew 6:1 also reference alms rather than general righteousness. The term translated as "merciful deeds" in the WEB refers ...

  4. Alms - Wikipedia

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    In Islam, the concept of Muhsi or Muhsin alms-giver or charitable giving is generally divided into voluntary giving, ṣadaqah (صدقة), and an obligatory practice, the zakāh (الزكاة). Zakāh is governed by a specific set of rules within Islamic jurisprudence and is intended to fulfill a well-defined set of theological and social ...

  5. Poor box - Wikipedia

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    An alms box is a strong chest or box often fastened to the wall of a church to receive offerings for the poor. The etymology of the word mite comes through Middle English and Middle Dutch from the Middle Low German mīte, a small Flemish coin or tiny animal. In biblical times, a mite or lepton was a small coin of almost no worth.

  6. Matthew 6:4 - Wikipedia

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    The verses 2–4 with verses 5–6 and verses 16–18 form three neatly symmetrical illustrations, about alms, prayer and fasting. [5] The acts of justice, including giving alms, and like prayer and fasting, are between God and the doer, unlike Roman philanthropy, which tends to have public displays of good works. [6]

  7. Charity (practice) - Wikipedia

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    A Hindu woman giving alms (painting by Raja Ravi Varma) Charitable giving is the act of donating money, goods, or time to the less fortunate, either directly or through a charitable trust or another worthy cause. [6] Charitable giving as a religious act or duty is referred to as almsgiving or alms.

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  9. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...