Sentences with phrase «figure of the servant»

What he conceives, moreover, will be a figure revealing itself to the inner eye of the soul; if he now beholds this, the figure of the servant will confuse him when he again opens his eyes.

There is the strange figure of the Servant in Second Isaiah whose suffering, even if it is not the suffering of God, is the way to redemption.

There is good reason to think that Jesus himself first directed the attention of his followers to the figure of the Servant.

If however we conclude that Jesus saw his mission adumbrated in the ideal figure of the Servant of the Lord, we encounter a certain difficulty.

The figure which takes his place is the figure of the Servant.

Not exact matches

Leading political and business figures have paid tribute to Sir Eric McClintock, a prominent businessman and public servant, who died in Sydney on Tuesday at the age of 99.

All romancing and trumpeting abroad about one's cleverness in penetrating the God's incognito, though without receiving the condition from the Teacher; that one took notice of him by the impression he made, such a strange feeling coming over one in his presence; that there was a something in his voice and mien, etc., etc. — all this is but silly twaddle, by which one does not become a disciple but only makes a mockery of the God.1 The servant - figure was no incognito.

The Suffering Servant figure is based upon the concept of penal suffering for wrong.

Reproached for altering the figure of the «holy Yehudi» in For the Sake of Heaven according to a conscious or unconscious Christian tendency, Buber answers that there is not one single trait of this figure which is not already to be found in the tradition of the suffering servant.

The fusion of the two ideal figures of Messiah and Servant of the Lord in the historical person of Jesus is dramatically represented in the scene which in all gospels prefaces the story of his public career.

Even though Jesus climactically fulfills the Servant figure [of Isaiah 53] in his crucifixion, this does not mean that there is no longer any application of it to anyone else.

Even if the Servant figure is consistently or only at times conceived as an individual (on the pattern of a Jeremiah, or perhaps the prophet himself, or a contemporary, or someone yet to appear), the very individualization is obviously shaped in the prophet's mind, consciously or unconsciously, by his people's corporate experience in the days from Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus.

Here Jesus is distinctly seen in terms of the Suffering Servant, and the Suffering Servant, however mysterious a figure he may be, was one whose vicarious sufferings were for the sake of the healing of his people.

And when Francis embraced a man who had been shunned much of his life because of facial tumors, CNN commented that the Pope «was living up to the ideals of his namesake, Francis of Assisi, a preeminent figure who considered himself a servant to the poor and destitute.»

One might almost, Lohmeyer suggests, venture to reconstruct the Galilean theology — or, rather, the primitive Galilean piety — from the pieces of tradition which Mark records; though not every «Son of Man» saying in the Gospel is primitive, and in its present form the conception has been influenced by the later identification of the Son of Man with the Suffering Servant figure depicted in Second Isaiah.

His prophecies are dominated by the conception of the «Servant of the Lord», a figure embodying the ideal of absolute devotion to God in service, suffering and sacrifice.

Leading political and business figures have paid tribute to Sir Eric McClintock, a prominent businessman and public servant, who died in Sydney on Tuesday at the age of 99.

All these data sets are summarized in our final figure, which also shows the number of civil servants since 1961.

The one category of civil servants which increased substantially in number and paybill over the past five years was «special advisers,» the political appointees who work closely with ministers (Figure 3).

We recalculated the figures as far as possible to reflect a common definition, but in the 2000s about 15 - 20 % of civil servants were reclassified in one year, and further reclassifications have occurred since then.

For the first time, major party lists were filled with easy to control party functionaries and public servants, instead of the usual business figures.

Papers released under a freedom of information request reveal one of the MoD's top civil servants told senior industry figures the government had already decided to replace its nuclear munitions despite public assurances that no decision had been taken from defence secretary Des Browne.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

The young girls were raised as servants and hid away from society in the absence of their respective father figures.

The housekeeper is borderline hostile, the servants are frightened of strange things that happen in the nursery, and mysterious 17th - century wooden figures are found in a locked room.

Here is a video review / unboxing of the Loyal Servants from the Enchanting Collection from Enesco: Here is a look at these figures: What do you think of the Loyal Servants?

The Bristol show centred on larger - than - life cut - outs of 100 colourful figures - 17th Century African slave servants brought to Europe.

With the title reminiscent of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, the provocative piece uses silhouetted figures to portray slavery - era violence; white masters can be seen performing sex acts on black servants while other characters grope and defecate on each other.

One of the greatest scientific and moral challenges of the modern world, and the entire time climatologists never figured out that it could just be attributed to swapping servants (what?)

The sad reality is that a succession of political figures, civil servants and complacent companies have preferred to sit on the sidelines than enjoin the fight.

As a result, they resign themselves to unhappiness, figuring that they'll work as indentured servants for a couple of years to pay off debt and then look for greener pastures.

If Fintrac was more than a job for well connected civil servants, would you not think they would have figured out by now that a signature is an important part of the ID process?