Sentences with word «leprous»
The word "leprous" is used to describe someone or something that has leprosy, which is a severe infectious disease. It typically causes skin sores, nerve damage, and can lead to disabilities if left untreated. Full definition
Jesus then went on to cherry - pick a text about how God sent Elijah only to widowed, Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers (two of the people Jews hated most), to show that these are types of people God is inviting into His Kingdom.
redeeminggod.com
So even though we knew we could not become leprous, it was one of the saddest things I think I've ever seen.
It is in such a heroic act that the elite affirms itself; an act endowed with an axial, communicative, and transsocial value, an act which is capable of raising the mass, of giving value to interested acts, as «in a series» (profitable virtues, mercenary acts, mediocre appetites, leprous sins).
«To the extent that Bola Ige's description of five leprous fingers goes for the PDP and the APC, the public can only welcome this exposé.
It's leprous green, corpse flesh lit by sulphur light, marking the end of a progression that took Anderson from the sunny Happy Accidents to the sepia - inflected Session 9 to the bleak and subterranean — Plutonian, really — The Machinist.
The husbands treat him as though he were vaguely leprous.
Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.
Yet even though we knew we could not become leprous, it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
«as you know the Bible quiet well, I'm also sure you know this was a type and shadow of Jesus» blood used to «cure» your leprous, pus - filled, stinking thoughts and deeds.
new I think you and Austin, perhaps, are the only posters that have leprous, pus - filled, stinking thoughts and deeds.
LET, as you know the Bible quiet well, I'm also sure you know this was a type and shadow of Jesus» blood used to «cure» your leprous, pus - filled, stinking thoughts and deeds.
As part of His teaching, Jesus used an illustration from the Old Testament about how God sent Elijah the Prophet to a Gentile woman and a leprous Syrian general.
All we know is that Namaan descends into the waters seven times, sees his leprous skin «restored like the flesh of a young boy,» acknowledges the full authority of Israel's God and, to ensure that he can render proper thanks to the Lord when he returns to Damascus, gets permission from Elisha to bring back two mule loads of local soil — a piece of Israel upon which to give thanks to the one who washed him clean.
Perhaps we might even surmise that if he is leprous, if there is this contradiction between his political power and his hidden distress, it is because God was waiting for him and planned through his mediation to penetrate the sphere of politics with the testimony to his love and also the presence of his truth.