Sentences with phrase «word eunuch»
The word eunuch in the old testament is the Hebrew word [caric](pronounced saw - reece»), meaning to be ca - s - t - r - a-t-ed.
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But the old words, barring eunuchs from the assembly and limiting the access of foreigners, claimed authority too.
I read, convincingly, somewhere that the word used for eunuch refers to several things including homosexuality.
It was Jesus» words on eunuchs that finally bridged the gap between faith and her medical condition.
Altizer's literal interpretation of the Incarnation in this third argument seems ultimately even more self - destructive than Origen's well - intentioned but much too literal interpretation of Christ's words to his disciples about those who have courage to make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matt.
In addition, Nordan memorably and brilliantly creates his own fictional postage stamp of a place, Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, where, in the words of one of his stories, «freaks grow like magic from the buckshot and gumbo, where eunuchs roam the Delta flatscape looking for Episcopalians.»