Sentences with phrase «of the old testament figure»

Christopher Morse cites Matthew's inclusion of the Old Testament figure of Rachel right in the midst of the Christmas story as an example of such cruciform narrative art.

It is not certain whether Matthew's designation of Jacob as the father of Joseph in 1:16 is intended to evoke the reader's memory of the Old Testament figure.

The author of the Letter was expounding the faith of an Old Testament figure, Moses; it was on account of his faith that Moses fled to Midian.

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The life of each of the Old Testament figures, on the other hand, has a cumulative trajectory.

Here specific moments in Christ's suffering and death are seen foreshadowed in the lives of great figures in the Old Testament.

The figure was arrived at by adding up the ages and length of events as related throughout the Old Testament.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

But, according to The Atlantic, «Scandal is no more salacious than the accounts of Old and New Testament biblical figures, from King David and his philandering - but-wise son, King Solomon, to Apostle Paul, pre-conversion.»

James Sanders, for example, a well - known and respected figure in American biblical studies, receives less than a page, since, Barr explains, «he does not do much to claim that [his work] leads toward an «Old Testament theology» or a «biblical theology,»» while David Brown, a British theologian of whom Barr says the same, is the subject of a substantial and highly laudatory chapter.)

Following the method of typological interpretation, 11 which saw Old Testament events as prefiguring New Testament ones, the 40 years that the children of Israel spent wandering in the wilderness of Sinai were interpreted as a figure of Christ's 40 days.

The figure of the shepherd is a familiar one in the Old Testament (Psalm 23), and it is used in the other gospels as well (Mark 6:34 and Matthew 9:36; Matthew 18:12 - 14 and Luke 15:3 - 7).

And James, to make his case, uses the premier figure of faith in the Old Testament, the father of faith and the father of all Jews.

To fully understand sixstepsrecords means to understand a decade - old movement called Passion, a metaphorical family with its own mother and father figures, four artists who really do act a lot like brothers, and a fairly obscure Old Testament tale about hauling around the Ark of the Covenaold movement called Passion, a metaphorical family with its own mother and father figures, four artists who really do act a lot like brothers, and a fairly obscure Old Testament tale about hauling around the Ark of the CovenaOld Testament tale about hauling around the Ark of the Covenant.

And that righteousness was interpreted, in such great figures as Jeremiah, Hosea, and the two or three men whose oracles have been put together in the Old Testament book we call Isaiah, as resting back upon and expressing the divine chesed — the faithful loving - mercy of Jahweh not only for his own people but for all the peoples of the earth.

The same Old Testament that provides the pronouns also states, «Since you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure — the likeness of male or female» (Deuteronomy 4:15 - 16).

What Old Testament scholarship has managed to show is the probability that Abraham and Jacob were two of the more important chieftains who led migrating tribes from upper Mesopotamia to Canaan, and that some of the stories now gathered in the sagas originated around these historical figures.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

As you point out from the story of Eliashib, for those churches that consider the tithe an Old Testament mandate, then should not the tithe be used in the manner prescribed there, rather than for buying large properties, covering them with multiple buildings, and in the case of many megachurch pastors and associates, giving them six figure salaries that go far beyond providing for their needs?

The argument that we have here a transcendent sovereign Son of man conception must turn entirely upon two points, that the Messiah here is «kept many ages» (R. H. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament II, 616, n. 26, finds this sufficient to identify the figure with the Son of man of I Enoch [G. H. Box]-RRB-.

Henoch Clapham, confusing New Testament Galilean Nazareth with the Hebrew term nazir and the dedicated Old Testament order of Nazirite declared in 1596: «A Nazarite he was, and a figure of our Nazaret anointed.»

The Old Testament figure crowded two of every animal onto an enormous wooden boat in order to ride out a catastrophic flood.

Subsequently, Zed and Oh's lighthearted look at the Old Testament has them crossing paths with such religious figures as Abraham, Isaac and Lilith on their testosterone - sodden sojourn to the city of Sodom.

Sporting an absurdly oversized moustache, it's testament to Sir Ken's charismatic performance that we can take this sympathetic, kind - hearted figure seriously — and the prospect of him returning for Death on the Nile is as pleasing as this comfortingly old - fashioned piece of cinema.

David is an Old Testament figure who appears in Judiasm, Islam and Christianity, and it's a safe bet that Brooks — who has studied Arabic and worked as a Middle East correspondant for the Wall Street Journal in the 1990s — will draw from all three traditions for her portrayal of the legendary king.

The protagonist of the Old Testament poem Judith is, in the words of Hugh Magennis, «one of the most powerful and active female figures in Old English literature, and one of the most «heroic» in her actions.»

The first Facebook title from Hexify Inc., Journey of Moses, is a a treasure - hunting adventure game based on the life of the prominent figure from the Bible's Old Testament.

For the remaining five windows, Polke designed images of figures from the Old Testament, based on medieval illuminations, which have themselves undergone transformation in the course of their long journey through time.

Römhild started with a list of verses in different versions of both the Old and New Testaments that referred to figures or ideas from earlier passages, then combed through both books for additional examples.