Sentences with phrase «striking biblical passage»
The striking biblical passage that concludes the page devoted to St. Fidelis in The One - Year Book of Saints is Luke 22: 31 — 32: «Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to have you, to sift you like wheat, but I have pleaded in prayer for you that your faith should not completely fail.
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To the Jews, the «eye for an eye» passage had become a license for personal vengeance, a basis for a vendetta, sort of a biblical permission to have a grudge or to strike back.