Sentences with phrase «of lepers»

For a time, the disease was considered hereditary, because relatives of lepers are more likely than others to catch the disease.

They are «shrubs and scrubs» who have heard of his inaugural address and of his healing of lepers and paralytics and of his forgiving sins and calling sinners to follow him.

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.

He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.

The first is that this fulfilment by man is set in the stream of global, political, and economic history even when we seem to have only private decisions (like that of the lepers).

The conduct of these lepers continues to be worthy of note.

The unfortunate result was that 90 percent of the lepers missed the second, more important gift Jesus had planned for them.

Possibly, therefore, he moved the story of the lepers, including the geographical note, to a later place than it had occupied in his source, though why he should do this is not apparent.

In another story we shall come across some of those lepers in Israel who were not cured.

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 «This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.

I'll see my eldest daughter with her BFF colouring at our feet, turning the provided picture of a leper rejoicing into a couple of chicks with carefully designed clothes on and black crayon eyelashes, praising God.

Instead of a Pharisee's house in Galilee, the scene of the incident in Mark and Matthew is the house of a leper at Bethany (Mk 14:3; Mt 26:6).

I don't discount the possibility that there is «magic» in the world, but you haven't told me that you just witnessed the healing of a leper and want to know if I think the messiah might have shown up in town.

It's difficult to believe in Jesus the healer of the leper and cripples also believe in the God who rained fire on Sodom, and demanded adulterers to be stoned and disobedient children to be put to death.

That was the cry of this leper.

Almost all his ministry was centered on the spiritual and material care of the residents of leper colonies.

No, it is only from the stance of a leper can we follow Jesus to touch and minister to other lepers, learning to love the unlovable, and touch the untouchable.

In Luke 5:12 - 15, Jesus answers the prayer of a leper.

by your description i think the population of godly people on the planet can be counted on the fingers of a leper's hand.

The trerated leprosy by ussing a live bird to sprinkle the blood of a dead bird around the house of a leper.

Osh, the man who rescued her, and Miss Maggie, a tough but affectionate neighbor, care for her and attempt to shield her from the cruel island residents and tourists who are convinced that she is a child of a leper.

A saint who made the sores of a leper disappear.

Walking between Angkor Thom and Terrace of the Leper King, steer away from the main path and head in to the woods a few yards — it's quickly possible to imagine the fear of taking the next step that was long a facet of everyday life in this region (although I've been assured that the area has been thoroughly cleared).

After a slow walk of about an hour with many stops for giant crabs, tortoises and birds we arrived at the ruins of the leper colony and the doctor's house which is now a museum with information about Curieuse Island's history.

One of the main sites to see is Kalaupapa National Historical Park, which was created to preserve the history of the leper colonies.

Earlier on the Darkest Dungeon Twitter feed, we got to see a screenshot of the Hag (also more of the Leper!)

Serious painters who believe in painting, however problematic, have all the status of a leper in today's art world, and those who believe that they are the «healthy» ones are often quite smug about their position.»

Not exact matches

But it was for a team that nobody wanted to be part of, a team that, frankly, was the leper colony.

October 21, 2012 — Names seven new saints, two of them Americans: 17th century Mohawk Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American, and Marianne Cope, a nun who devoted 30 years of her life helping lepers in Hawaii.

These miracles included the healing of a blind man and a leper and bringing life to the dead.

so here we have a deception from the writer of this article and he is a clergy and he says that the word leper is a term used generally for illness in that time.

The DSM - IV may as well just be called «God's Book of Unclean Lepers,» and it assumes, just like the Bible, that the clinicians are the elite and perfect «normal» ones and that everyone else that looks different than them has the disorder.

I distinctly remember the story of Jesus pointing at a leper and saying «Screw that guy, he should get a better job.»

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

And this is somehow equivalent to Francis of Assisi, who made out with a hallucinatory leper in the 5th century?

The best of what I am calling Pentecostal mysticism envisions a «worldly» ministry in which «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

MAYBE, Rob, just maybe atheists get tired of being called hopeless, soulless, sinners, immoral, lost, unloved, heathens, satan, mindless, aimless, doomed, unspiritual, lowlifes, despairing, unhappy, unchosen and treated like lepers.

Otherwise we'd still be living in huts and driving lepers out of our villages.

Everything the Pope is doing now is not just an imitation of his patron saint who loved the poor, embraced lepers, charmed sultans, made peace and protected nature.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

This estrangement of persons with AIDS has been compared to that suffered by lepers.

LET: of course the blood of the innocent bird was used to cleanse the leper because Jesus wasn't yet on the scene.

In the times of the biblical narrative Jesus is healing lepers, raising people from the dead, controlling nature.

Just days before his betrayal and death, Jesus and his disciples were eating at the home of Simon the Leper in Bethany.

Matthew and Mark describe an unnamed woman from Bethany who, while Jesus dined in the home of Simon the Leper just days before his death, anoints his head with expensive ointment to the chagrin of the disciples at the table, who grumble that her offering might be better spent on the poor.

If the law says don't drink, rest on Sunday (or the sabbath, one of the ten commandments) or don't touch lepers, or tithe, give offerings, or anything you wan na add then Jesus certainly didn't follow all of it and even broke it, it would seem.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

Like the leper and others, instead of obeying Jesus» command to keep the miracle secret, these men too «spread his fame through all that district.»

Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper, 4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.