Sentences with phrase «ancient examples of»

«Infested fossil worms show ancient examples of symbiosis.»

Not exact matches

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

For example, in ancient Rome it took the merchants a few months to catch up following a round of coinage debasement, meaning that it took a few months for prices to adjust to the reduced value of the money.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

= > Well, actually it is incredibly difficult, which is exactly why so many ancient texts get corrupted over years, examples of course abound.

Sylvania, for example, was «erudite and fond of literature» (a kind of patron saint for female seminarians); day and night she read the ancient Christian commentators, three million lines of Origen and two and a half million lines of Gregory, Basil, and others.

The Creation account of Genesis is often taken as literal historical narrative, yet in reality is is a beautiful example of ancient eastern poetry, with many truths hidden within it.

And you lorraine are a perfect example of a religious zealot — bound by blind faith into believing you are right and that all others will persh according to some inane ramblings in an ancient book.

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

For example, the concept of an ancient earth seemed incomprehensible to people 500 years ago.

Isaiah is thus one of the supreme examples in history of a religious teacher who, instead of discarding an ancient word, encrusted with inadequate and mistaken meanings, chose to reinterpret it.

A different kind of example can be found in an ancient paschal homily preached in the second century by Melito, bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor.

It was used by Greek literary scholars in the ancient world to interpret the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and it was employed by Jewish thinkers — for example, Philo of Alexandria — to interpret the Pentateuch.

Perhaps encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II's tireless journeys in search of a new church order, Jakovos and Demetrios have embarked on a series of visits to ecclesiastical capitals, ancient and modern.

It offers examples of consummate literary skill; parts can be ranked with the best of the contemporary ancient histories; and nowhere else in all the world's literature and history is God so consistently and passionately the center of action and contemplation.

As another example, the ancient worship of «mother earth» is linked to modern - day environmentalism.

For example, S.K. De, Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature, (Calcutta: K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959), 82; Norvin Hein, «Radha and Erotic Community,» in The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

The ancient Hebrew transition from henotheism to monotheism is an excellent example of such progress; the God of Israel was adequate for the confrontation between Israel and Egypt, but the God who could intervene in the long struggle among Israel, Assyria, and Babylon had to be the God of the whole world (cf. e.g., Amos 9:7, Isaiah 10:5 - 15).

Another example of dubious complexity is in primitive religious views, thus the gods and goddesses of India and ancient Greece.

There emerge, however, from the «periphery» (so to speak) rather than from the center, pockets of order, meaning, and value which grow, spread, and die — that order, those values, and those meanings which gradually grew and spread until they constituted the various Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt would be an example of how order, value, and meaning emerge from the «bottom» and spread «upward» and «outwards» into dynamic pockets or aggregates of order, meaning, and value which prosper - overcoming and absorbing other pockets of order — until they no longer embody the imagination, vigor, and zest required for continued vitality and find themselves absorbed into other competing orders or gradually disintegrating into the silence of a Dark Age.

We can't absolve ourselves from the onus that may be on Israel, for example, for its ruthless invasion of ancient Canaan by trying to explain it away, any more than we can absolve ourselves from the catalog of horrors that have resulted from the theocratic pretensions of the church.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040 — 1650 BCE): «Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.»

For example, the theory of evolution is contradicted by the existence of technically advanced pyramids that we could not even re-create today, or by ancient hieroglyphics that depict our solar system before Galileo ever made his discoveries, whereas these things fit perfectly well within the Christian account that acknowledges the antediluvian and / or pre-Adamic worlds.

Heretofore in Israelite Yahwism the meaning of the present was taken primarily from the understanding and interpretation of the past, as, for example, in the ancient cultic confession of faith recorded in Deut.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

It's the same thing with many other legends / tales like phoenixes for example are in dozens of ancient tales from across the word (Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian (American and Arab / middle eastern).

Ancient Russian hagiography offers examples of the medieval habit of equating what should be with what was.

These examples show that, just as the creation account of Genesis 1 should be read in light of other Ancient Near Eastern creation texts, so the New Testament writers should be read in light of Second Temple texts.

The author apparently used to some extent the liberty which all ancient historians claimed (after the example of Thucydides), of composing speeches which are put into the mouths of the personages of the story.

You only have instances of correct names and places within the bible, something that can be found in other examples of ancient literature.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

For example, at one point he quotes the distinguished historian of ancient science G. E. R. Lloyd, who said of Greek science: «Much as the Egyptians and Babylonians contributed to the content of these studies, the investigations only acquire self «conscious methodologies for the first time with the Greeks.»

Perhaps in highly personalized societies of the ancient type, such a usage might make sense — under kings, tyrants, or tribal chiefs, for example, where one person made all the crucial social decisions.

Because It was not created for that reason whether were males or females... nor it was meant that men go for men or women go for women... And those laws were among God's commandments to mankind which he had narrated as a sin within his Holy Scriptures and the Holy Quran giving examples of ancient generations that were doomed for disbelieving and breaking heavenly laws... those narrated tales were for us to learn and take heed rather than repeat same ill doing...

This is the main point of the great array of parallels to Jesus» teaching adduced from the ancient Jewish tradition and literature, for example in Strack and Billerbeck's Commentary on the New Testament from Talmud and Midrash.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

His first book, The Way of the Prisoner (Lantern, 2003), deals with centering prayer and abounds with examples of how ordinary Christians can practice what ancient monks did in their cells.

In the ancient church, each converting person had a sponsor who was a spiritual director and a living example of what it means to be a Christian.

Awkward (and often outdated) pull - down maps for Sunday school classes, for example, are being replaced by software - generated images of the ancient Near East, whereby Bibles students can trace the missionary journeys of Paul or follow the exodus route of the Israelites.

This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.

Some of them are a little difficult for modern ears, as, for example, the ancient theory that man, having been sold to the Devil, must be brought back by God; and so God paid a price to Satan.

The relation between the study of ancient Near Eastern cultures and the practice of preaching, for example, needs to be given theological articulation.

The Ancients for example had the Sibylline oracles whom they believed to be interpreters of divine will.

Earlier we spoke of the example of the ancient creed from Deuteronomy — «My father was a wandering Aramaean, etc.» In this sense, to recount the story is one aspect of celebration.

For example, if you read the Bible you would know that the ancient Hebrew book of Genesis is basically a thesis defense against the mythology of the Assyrians, Babels, Egyptians, etc..

Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor from 361 to 363, the most gifted and most bitter of all the ancient assailants of Christianity, endeavored, with the whole combined influence of his station, talent, and example, to restore idolatry throughout the Roman Empire, but in vain.

The classical prophets of ancient Israel regularly report seeing into another world (cf., for example, the opening verse of Ezekiel: «The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God»), though they are without the healing powers characteristic of the holy man proper.

To these examples (or their ancient equivflents) and countless others, the eighth Commandment called Israel and later called the Christian community to live out a standard of radical personal honesty in obedience to the God who established our Covenant.