Sentences with phrase «of the tomb means»

Jesus is experiencing something like a Gethsemane, for he knows that calling Lazarus out of the tomb means that he must enter it.

Not exact matches

As Milosz looks at the names on the tombs, from his own «half broken inside» he begins to establish a communion with those buried there, musing ironically on the meanings of the names he reads: «Crazy Sophies, / Michaels who lost every battle, / Self - destructive Agathas.»

As Jesus promised, «those in the memorial tombs will hear [Christ's] voice and come out» by means of a resurrection.

This means that as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days, so the Messiah will be in the tomb three days.

Even assuming that Jesus» grave was known, which is by no means certain, it seems very possible that neither party was interested in it, or regarded the truth of Easter as dependent on it, until long after the event: until the period of the controversies reflected in Matthew, which would not arise until the empty tomb had become important in Christian thought about the Resurrection.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.

And trying to prove an empty tomb means something special via unknown authors and a shoddy list of alleged witnesses is grasping at a lot of straw.

In this chapter we are simply showing that the use of the term «on the third day» does not necessarily mean that Paul was familiar with the account of the empty tomb, and that some scholars feel quite certain that he was not.

Thus in Mark, the visit to the tomb is the means by which the resurrection itself is declared, and not a prelude to, or presupposition of, appearances of the risen Lord to follow.

John's inclusion of the tomb story meant that the exaltation of Jesus associated with the cross was subjected to a slight delay in time.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

It was rather that, whether you take the empty tomb story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

I disagree with the choice of words here, and, perhaps, the meaning in that Jesus» death was necessary and so was something that he chose to not resist and that, later, he left the tomb into which his then - corpse had been interred by rolling away a rock which had served as the «door» to it, which would not require any «busting».

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

That's good, obviously, because it means it looks and sounds amazing and plays like a dream - plus it actually has a ton of tombs this time around - but slightly disappointing because it is a very similar experience overall.

This measure of last resort meant the kingdom was saved but uninhabitable, and any veteran Zelda player would presume the endgame to involve raising it from its watery tomb.

The Venetian painter meant a Pietà, set against the illusion of heavy stone, for his own tomb.