Earlier on the Darkest Dungeon Twitter feed, we got to see a screenshot of the Hag (also
more of the Leper!)
Not exact matches
Within this legendary story hides
more than 5,000 others — the story
of the skinny orphan, the skeptical tax collector, the despised Samaritan, the curious fisherman, the struggling widow, the disdained prostitute, the wealthy mother, the angry zealot, the ostracized Canaanite, the banished
leper, the suffering slave, the repentant sinner... and ultimately, the story
of you and me.
The unfortunate result was that 90 percent
of the
lepers missed the second,
more important gift Jesus had planned for them.
More broadly, the Pope's embrace recalls images
of Jesus» healing
of lepers, again a blanket term for a variety
of skin diseases common in first - century Judea and Galilee.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult
of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no
more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches
lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages»
of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord
of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept
of the Law into one
of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
Christians don't follow Leviticus any
more the reason Christians don't follow it is because Christ didn't follow it either, in many particulars — he touched
lepers and bleeding women and dead bodies among other breaches
of the Leviticus code.
For a time, the disease was considered hereditary, because relatives
of lepers are
more likely than others to catch the disease.
My higher EUR allocation isn't about choosing the merits
of the EUR vs. the USD — it's
more about being forced to pick your favourite
leper!
Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement,
leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has,
more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many
of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years
of the apartheid regime.
The scenic former
leper colony island
of Curieuse is a sanctuary for local wildlife — and for visitors who can relish in its tranquil charms
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