Sentences with phrase «eunuchs in»

Professor Salby has also addressed the Parliament of Eunuchs in Westminster.

The lack of a response from the three thousand eunuchs in the south - east corner of the Grove will also have helped.

Then there is a fascinating account of the place of eunuchs in Byzantine life.

The Greek historian Herodotus, author of «History of the Persian Wars» wrote just 25 years after the reign of Xerxes and provides some insight into his might and cruelty, including the fact that 500 young boys were gathered each year from the kingdom and castrated to serve as eunuchs in the Persian court.

When Yeats, in 1914, described the eunuchs in hell's street enviously watching mighty Juan riding by, he was making use of what by then was something of a literary commonplace.

Jesus» saying about eunuchs in Matt 19:12 presupposes that eunuchs are not having sexual intercourse at all, let alone having forbidden sexual intercourse.

The references to eunuchs in Isa 56:3 - 5 and Acts 8:27 - 39 refer to persons who were physically castrated against their will, not to persons who willingly removed their marks of masculinity, much less actively engaged in sexual relations forbidden by Scripture.

Herododus, however, also reports that 500 young boys were gathered every year and castrated to serve as eunuchs in the Persian court.

Still think that the water and how much are still portant in order to baptized like John the Baptist did as well as Philip and Eunuch in Acts 8

to those who, like Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, helped others to understand it and apply it to their own lives.»

So long as the choice is put in these terms, it would be difficult to do other than to choose to be a political eunuch in order to become a servant in the Kingdom of God.

The word eunuch in the old testament is the Hebrew word [caric](pronounced saw - reece»), meaning to be ca - s - t - r - a-t-ed.

But instead, Philip baptized the eunuch in the first body of water the two could find.

Philip encountered the Ethiopian eunuch in a most unlikely place and converted him to Christianity.

Not exact matches

Transgender people are, however, also sometimes venerated in the South Asian tradition of according spiritual powers to eunuchs and others who fall outside traditional gender divisions.

A conversation about human rights is always in order, to be sure — particularly in regard to issues of human sexuality — but Isaiah is speaking of the remarkable generosity of God, who «will give an everlasting name» to the eunuchs, precisely those who could establish no name for themselves by the normal processes of procreation.

Finally, in the eyes of the prophet, it is not a matter of eunuchs and foreigners being «allowed» into a community that is whole in itself and that now condescends to let in some who, alas, are not like them.

For thus says the LORD: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths... I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

(Though many believe His reference to some eunuchs being born this way was an acknowledgement of such a condition without condemnation) And the 6 or 7 typical clobber passages in the bible, upon careful examination, fail to address what we presently understand as sexual orientation at all.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

Just like there are born eunuchs, there are also homosexuals who have been so since birth, those who can not attribute their orientation to any past incidents in their lives.

Meticulously well - researched, carefully written, and beautifully delivered, the sermon highlighted why the eunuch's interest in the writings of Isaiah were of particular significance to his own life story, illustrating the inclusive and deeply personal love that God has for all people.

Jesus commends those who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19: 12).20 Christian celibacy is dedication to a pattern of life in which one fruitful and natural kind of experience is renounced for the sake of service to God and neighbour.

The eunuchs were the ones who served in the harem.

In case you don't know, a eunuch is a castrated male.

Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king's manner toward all who knew law and justice, those closest to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and who ranked highest in the kingdom): «What shall we do to Queen Vashti, according to law, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus brought to her by the eunuchs?»

Herodotus also tells us that in general, eunuchs were cringing, fawning leeches who often just told the king what they thought he wanted to hear.

Then the king's servants who attended him said: «Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; 3and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quarters, under the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of the women.

In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubineIn the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubinein the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines.

Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised.

However, a more conservative interpretation of the Matthew text, taken for example by Mark A Yarhouse, author of Understanding Gender Dysphoria (IVP), is that «those who make themselves eunuchs» in this text «almost certainly refers to those who choose not to marry (rather than suggesting they were castrating themselves).»

But in Matthew, in that same paragraph, Jesus mentions gay men as «born eunuchs» and does not condemn them at all.

gay does not = eunuch but you can look up in dictionary... and it actually gives rise that if someone did have the inclination they should be celibate.

Kings used «born eunuchs» to guard their Harems because those men were not interested in women.

Jesus also mentions gay men as «born eunuchs» in Matthew and again does not condemn them.

Muhammad said to Uthman ibn Maz» un who was ascetic by nature and who asked permission to make himself a eunuch and to spend the rest of his life as a wandering beggar, «Hast thou not in me a fair example?

In practical application, Kings and Rulers would often use c - a-s-t-r-a-t-e-d men or eunuchs, as those who were charged with the management and care of women's chambers.

For thus says the LORD, «To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

And, as we will see in future installments of the series, Esther's favor with the eunuchs will prove critical to her efforts in saving the Jews, as God continues to use the powerless to shame the powerful.

Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

They laugh because they are in on the secret: that they serve a God who uses indentured eunuchs to change the course of history, orphan girls to reverse the decisions of kings, and rebellious pagan queens to put it all in motion.

Oh, I do actually have one more thing to say about baptism in Acts, which I will post tomorrow when we look at the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch.

In Jesus» teaching, the last who shall be first are people who, by virtue of life circumstance, have very little social or spiritual status according to traditional religious practice — women, children, and eunuchs.

1 Modern scholars treat these terms as titles rather than proper names, Tartan as commander - in - chief of the army, Rabsaris as head of the eunuchs, and Rabshakeh as chief cupbearer.

If Jesus gave special status in his day to persons who do not procreate, on what grounds do churches today treat modern eunuchs — single people, homosexuals, and childless couples — like outcasts?

When Philip In Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in JesuIn Acts 8 had finished teaching the Ethiopian Eunuch about Jesus from the old testament till the present moment why did Philip baptise him with water if all it took was belief in Jesuin Jesus?

First, he granted equality to women in marriage; then he commended the status of a eunuch as having special promise for spiritual well - being (Matt.

The baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch was a public demonstration that he was making a change in his life and was fully identifying himself with Jesus Christ.

(Interestingly, several of these eunuchs will play important roles in Esther's story as the powerless end up controlling the powerful.)

Altizer's literal interpretation of the Incarnation in this third argument seems ultimately even more self - destructive than Origen's well - intentioned but much too literal interpretation of Christ's words to his disciples about those who have courage to make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matt.