anointed, that will begin to manifest across the entire corpus of humanity, like
flashes of lightning seen everywhere illuminating the darkness of the clouds.
The sense we get here is that Jesus will not appear in the flesh as the same Jesus of Nazareth who was speaking, but that it would be his spirit, the Christ, the same spirit with which mankind is (or will be, or is being) anointed, that will manifest across the entire corpus of humanity, like bright
flashes of lightning seen everywhere illuminating the darkness of the clouds.
Not exact matches
The Aramaic roots
of the verb for «to
see God» evoke the image
of a
flash of lightning that appears suddenly across the sky.
Although passengers and crew may
see a
flash and hear a loud noise if
lightning strikes their plane, nothing serious should happen because
of the careful
lightning protection engineered into the aircraft and its sensitive components.
«Don't sweat it,» I say, trying to
see through heavy gobs
of rainfall and intermittent
flashes of lightning.
Just when you finally have the weekend to yourself and are set to have a fun day
of outdoor activities together with your dog, you look out
of the window and
see a
flash of lightning.
That was his favorite spot because he couldn't
see the
flash of the
lightning strike and so that is what we built for him!