Sentences with phrase «carried by angels»

Gentile Elect, represented by Lazarus, are pictured as spiritually «carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom» after death.

There is only one passage in the gospel record in which a rich man is declared deserving of hell - fire simply because he is rich, and a poor man simply because he is poor is found worthy to be carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom — the story of the rich man and Lazarus.

Lazarus was «carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.»

Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

Not exact matches

When comparing the fund returns to angel investor returns, it is important to remember that fund returns are reduced by tax, expenses, and the equity participation, or carry, of the fund managers.

Buoyed by the voices of the saints past and present in that parish, I felt my faith picked up at the seams and pinned to angels who carried me over canyons of doubt.

22 «Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

«One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.

Christian theology teaches that angels are pure spirits created by God who carry out his will on Earth.

We can think of Daniel 10:13, 20 which tells us that in Daniel's day, the Persian and Greek empires were controlled by two fallen angels who were attempting to prevent God from carrying out His plans.

In truth the Revelation of St. John the Divine is the Ark of the Testament; and the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the Book hidden in this Ark and carried to me through the 2,000 years that seperated the time when John first got it; and then; (as it is written at chapter 10 of his own Revelation) at the very last sentence of that chapter; when it is said to him by the angel of the Covenant Jonathan (who John the Baptist was named after, by the way) that he «would have to prophesy again»; as to explain what his Revelation was all about: otherwise the Revelation would have absolutely sered no purpose at all; and it does; as all will soon shortly know.

In truth the revelation of St. John the Divine is the Ark of the Testament; and the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the Book hidden in this Ark and carried to me through the 2,000 years that seperated the time when John first got it; and then; (as it is written at chapter 10 of his own Revelation) at the very last sentence of that chapter; when it is said to him by the angel of the Covenant Jonathan (who John the Baptist was named after, by the way) that he «would have to prophesy again»; as to explain what his Revelation was all about.

(See H. V. Williams Jackson: «Ahriman» in Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, edited by James Hastings) The problem of evil was thus carried back to a precedent, continuous conflict in the cosmos, with God and his attendant hosts of angels contending against the prince of darkness and his devils.

And as they were carried in this way, these brothers prayed and spoke to the people, and those who saw them close by said that their faces were like the faces of angels.

I've visited Florence for the first time when I was a teenie, and one of the things I still carry in my memory from back then are all the angel paintings by Michelangelo you see in the whole city.

Naïve newcomer to the City of Angels, carrying nothing but his «outsider» past and a huge tattoo of Montgomery Clift & Elizabeth Taylor inked on his shaved skull; driven by the allure of cinema to the glittering temptations of Zeroville; a town where anything goes.

This time, the viewer isn't carried along by the gorgeous restlessness of the camera (best exemplified by 1996's Fallen Angels) or the Polaroid - ish visual scheme that reached its peak with Happy Together.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).