The fleshly, muscular contortions only further confine the imprisoned figure.
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It's impossible to separate the fleshly human body from Christ's body.
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Very occasionally, we are given permission to reveal glimpses of our fleshly selves.
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The intimacy of the Experimental Theater at the Abrons made the experience palpably fleshly.
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Who touches this book touches a fleshly, ambitious, anxious, self-involved, self-doubting mortal.
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For two decades, Howard has sworn off liquor, cigarettes, women, and other fleshly temptations.
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John diagnoses Alma's hysteria — saying she has an "irritated doppelgänger" — as Alma denounces his fleshly weakness.
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It's not easy for me to talk about because I hated chasing those selfish, fleshly desires, right?
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"No doubt my books too, like my fleshly being, would in the end one day die," he reflects.
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The green juices she drank were indicators that she didn't have interest in such fleshly pursuits as enjoying food.
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Castellucci's work uncomfortably draws attention to the body and aging, the irreducibly fleshly elements of which we are made.
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The internet can sometimes seem to be a garden of fleshly delights, with every click uncovering a new fetish or kink.
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And rather than sneaking out for fleshly trysts, the would-be couple here come together only in disembodied form in dreams.
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The resultant patterns orbiting the oval are tinged with framed patches of enlivening color — aqueous blues, flourishes of white and fleshly pink.
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Maybe that's something I got from her, whether it really did make its way through fleshly layers, or whether it came later.
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Several of them have run already in The New Yorker, so the distinctive Moshfegh flavor—minimal, repulsive, fleshly—may already be known to you.
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He knows martial arts, but his weapon of choice (in this fleshly plane of existence) is a baseball bat wrapped in enchanted barbed wire. 8.
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There are richer ways to imagine one's mortal, fleshly being, the nuns of Oby teach, and other strategies than denial for contemplating its inevitable end.
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For Catholics, the bread and wine are not metaphors for Jesus' body and blood, but the real thing — a miraculous, fleshly conduit between God and creation.
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The other arm is painted on, while a dent in the middle of the form helps to make the figure, like the fleshly body, bilaterally symmetrical.
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"Faceless Head" locates reality in the subject's substructure, deriving its tension from the juxtaposition of the blood-red background against the thick outlines and fleshly glow of the elongated head.
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The song, as pink and as sweet as bubblegum, is a lesson in fleshly self-discovery coming from Monáe, who identified as an android at the start of her career.
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His resolve is weakened, however, when he is overcome by a desire—not a worldly or a fleshly desire but simply the desire to purchase a book of kabbalistic mysticism.
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Those humans, with their fleshly fragility, inconvenient emotions, and sense of entitlement, are nothing but cannon fodder when seen through David's removed gaze, undeserving of the galaxies they intend to settle.
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We paid no regard to Brother Peter, our housemaster, who lectured that, for our own good, we had to sublimate the fleshly wants of our bodies to the superior governance of our minds.
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In "La Source Surprise par un Satyre" (29–73), the recumbent figures of the pale, fleshly nymph-like female and the bronze-skinned satyr provide little guidance on the meaning of this pagan annunciation.
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If you barely let a point of sunlight sneak through, you can diffract and project the light using a fleshly pinhole camera: There are other, more effective ways to use projection to your advantage, though.
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We had been studying the so-called flesh interfaces for years, and of all the mysteries that surrounded them, the portal phenomenon -- the apparent teleportation of objects which occurred within the fleshly tunnel -- was the greatest mystery of all.
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As with the Fayum portraits, Morgan's portraits mean to simultaneously capture the individual's earthly and otherworldly traits: using red to effect a fleshly quality, and blues to create shadows — resulting in an interplay of light sourced from the cosmos and carnal matter.
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Where the self-proclaimed "sexiest app ever" differs is that it purports to take the hard work out of manually scrolling through your (presumed) years and years of fleshly snapshots to decide which need to be hidden and which are OK to be accidentally seen by your friends when they're peeping your latest vacation pics on your phone.
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" Its spirit has been distilled into a realm without wine but instead "vodka and water, and a lemon," and reincarnated into a majestic hymn called "Sex With Me." One of three bonus cuts that close out ANTI, "Sex" is an explicit decree of Rihanna's fleshly beauty and sensual greatness, as she proclaims in its opening line from on high, "Sex with me, so amazing!
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I abridged with domfine norsemanship till I had done abate her maidan race, my baresark bride and knew her fleshly when with all my bawdy did I her whorship.
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The author's failure to employ polemics against the Catholic/Orthodox consensus argues for a date prior to the existence of the consensus, which would place the date of the text in the early 2nd century. Yet this is an argument from silence, and although plausible, is not decisive. Also, the text never explicitly denies a fleshly resurrection in the future. It only asserts a spiritual resurrection in the present is a reality, and leaves open the possibility that the fleshly resurrection of the future is also a reality.
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The Fleshly School is the name given by Robert Buchanan to a realistic, sensual school of poets, to which Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Algernon Charles Swinburne belonged. He accused them of immorality in an article entitled "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in The Contemporary Review in October 1871. This article was expanded into a pamphlet (1872), but he subsequently withdrew from the criticisms it contained, and it is chiefly remembered by the replies it evoked from Rossetti in a letter to the Athenaeum (December 16, 1871), entitled The Stealthy School of Criticism, and from Swinburne in Under the Microscope (1872).
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When God created the world, the souls which had previously existed without bodies became incarnate. Those whose love for God diminished the most became demons. Those whose love diminished moderately became human souls, eventually to be incarnated in fleshly bodies. Those whose love diminished the least became angels.
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On 29 July 1554 Philip wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, "the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries." (Porter, Linda (2007). Mary Tudor: The First Queen. pp. 464. Piatkus Books Ltd, London, UK, 2009. . p.
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Sarkic, from the Greek σάρξ, flesh (or hylic, from the Greek ὕλη, stuff, or matter) in Gnosticism describes the lowest level of human nature—the fleshly, instinctive level. This is not the notion of body as opposed to thought; rather the sarkic level is said to be the lowest level of thought.
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And, as said St. Augustine, the dedication is the word of faith that is preached and received in faith. For this, it results that the words mysteriously pronounced cannot be the dedication as it appears of the institution that our Lord Jesus Christ let to His apostles, directing His words to the current disciples, which he ordered drink and eat. VIII. The holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper is not food for the body as it is to the souls (because we realize nothing fleshly, as we declare in the fifth article) receiving by faith, which is not fleshly. IX. We believe that baptism is the sacrament of penitence, and as an ingress in the Church of God, to be incorporate in Jesus Christ.
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Cups and Saucers, the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive A popular misconception holds that the central character of Bunthorne, a "Fleshly Poet," was intended to satirise Oscar Wilde, but this identification is retrospective. According to some authorities, Bunthorne is inspired partly by the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were considerably more famous than Wilde in early 1881 before Wilde published his first volume of poetry. Rossetti had been attacked for immorality by Robert Buchanan (under the pseudonym "Thomas Maitland") in an article called "The Fleshly School of Poetry", published in The Contemporary Review for October 1871, a decade before Patience.In the essay, Buchanan excoriates Rossetti and the Pre- Raphaelite school for elevating sensual, physical love to the level of the spiritual.
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The ruling Cometeers feed on their slaves and literally absorb their souls, leaving disgusting, dying hulks in their wake. It is said that they do so, as they were once fleshly entities themselves of various species. Hence, the ruling Cometeers keep other intelligent beings as slaves and "cattle". They fear AKKA, though, as it can erase all their possessions.
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From a religious instead of a political angle, Cynthia would represent holy and pure aspirations while Tellus, whose name means "earth" in Latin, would represent worldly desires. Endymion's conflicts between Tellus and Cynthia would be, in this sense, an allegory for the "struggle between fleshly temptation and heavenly contemplation" that all Christians must face.Bevington, et al. 2002, pp. 75–76.
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See also: The most famous essay regards Søren Kierkegaard's breaking off his engagement to Regine Olsen. Lukacs reads it as metaphoric for the sacrifice of life that the author makes. And the angst of existential commitment would play a role in the development of existentialist Marxism. Regine Olsen, the concrete, living, fleshly person, thus becomes a character in the aesthetic romance of Kierkegaard.
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The gill, which is situated far back on the right side, is large and consists of a considerable number of fleshly lobes. Drawing of one row of teeth in the radula of Bullacta exarata. C - central tooth, L - lateral tooth, 1-12 - marginal teeth. Digestive system: The mouth is a minute transverse slit in the front of the cephalic disc.
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Marcion is sometimes described as a Gnostic philosopher. In some essential respects, Marcion proposed ideas which aligned well with Gnostic thought. Like the Gnostics, he believed that Jesus was essentially a divine spirit who appeared to human beings in human form, but did not actually take on a fleshly human body. However, Marcionism conceptualizes God in a way which cannot be reconciled with broader Gnostic thought.
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The name Charn may be derived from the Latin root carnālis, meaning "fleshly" or "related to the flesh." The words carnal, carnivore, carnival, and charnel house (from the French charnel) also derive from this root. This would emphasize the hedonism and indulgence in worldly pleasures—the pleasures of the flesh as opposed to more spiritual delights—that eventually led to the fall of Charn.
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Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” Forbearance is a part of our stewardship responsibility, as Stewards we are required to be found faithful. Immediate responses or knee- jerk responses are in direct opposition to forbearance, thus this isn't easy to master. Commonly it is found that the fleshly mind and impulse is quicker response than the response of forbearance.
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Orange World and Other Stories is a collection hovering on the threshold between horror and comedy, between the phantasmagoric and the fleshly."The New York Times wrote "For all their wildness, the stories in “Orange World” are fundamentally tame. Little happens in them that wouldn’t ultimately be palatable, after a glass of pinot gris, in the snuggest of book groups. Not all her endings are happy ones, but love can often save the day.
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Many Gnostics saw matter as evil, and believed that a divine spirit would never have taken on a material body. Some varieties of Gnosticism went so far as to hold that the God of the Jews is only a demiurge who has trapped humanity in a fleshly prison; and that Christ is an emanation of the true God, sent to free humanity from that bondage to the flesh. (See Marcionism, Aeon, Archon).
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Origen, in his Treatise on First Principles, recommends for the Old and New Testaments to be interpreted allegorically at three levels, the "flesh," the "soul," and the "spirit." He states that many of the events recounted in the Scriptures, if they are interpreted in the literal, or fleshly, sense, are impossible or nonsensical. They must be interpreted allegorically to be understood. Some passages have parts that are literally true and parts that are literally impossible.
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' At the Cincture: Precinge Domine cingulo fidei: et virtute castitatis lumbos mei corporis: et extingue in eis humorem libidinis: ut jugiter maneat in me tenor totius castitatis. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. 'Gird me, O Lord, with the cincture of faith, and the loins of my body with the virtue of chastity, and extinguish my fleshly desires, that the unbroken chain of a chastity entire may continually abide in me. Through Christ our Lord.
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There are thinkers such as Maximus the Confessor who associate sarkic (fleshly) with the somatic dimension (bodily) of human nature, the area where redemption must occur. There are, however, instances when they are considered near equivalent. But these states needed to be transcended to achieve a form of existence characterized by a heightened communion with God. Sarkic is also used in Christian terms such as Paul's description of Abraham's children as sarkic children who have the pneuma of Christ.
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These could sometimes become unruly, as recorded by Robert Grosseteste (Letter 22.7): > In each and every church you should strictly prohibit one parish from > fighting with another over whose banners should come first in processions at > the time of the annual visitation and veneration of the mother church. […] > Those who dishonour their spiritual mother should not at all escape > punishment, when those who dishonour their fleshly mothers are, in > accordance with God’s law, cursed and punished with death.
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The slave races are of flesh and blood, but none are remotely similar to humans. The Cometeers cannot be destroyed by AKKA, as they are incorporeal from the Universe's point of view and exist for the most part in an alternate reality. The ruling Cometeers feed on their slaves and literally absorb their souls, leaving disgusting, dying hulks in their wake. It is said that they do so because they were once fleshly entities themselves of various species.
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Ushakov had a lot of pupils and associates and even published a short treatise on icon-painting entitled A Word to Loving-Meticulous Icon Painting (1664). Some of the more conservative Russian priests, such as archpriest Avvakum, regarded his icons as "lascivious works of devil", for they were too Western for their tastes. Avvakum, in particular, alleged that Ushakov painted his "fleshly saints" after his own portly appearance. Ushakov also executed secular commissions and produced engravings for book illustrations.
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" - Donelley, "Calvinism and Scholasticism in Vermigli's doctrine of man and grace", p. 99 (1976) "Modern scholarship has underscored the fact that Hebrew and Greek concepts of soul were not synonymous. While the Hebrew thought world distinguished soul from body (as material basis of life), there was no question of two separate, independent entities. A person did not have a body but was an animated body, a unit of life manifesting itself in fleshly form—a psychophysical organism (Buttrick, 1962).
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The portrait is painted with the tip of the brush, on a weathered green background. The physiognomy of the face is typical of the self portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola: wide black eyes, small fleshly lips, an austere hairstyle and clothing, suitable for a woman from a good family, who wishes to present herself as a virgin, as well as literate and well educated. The raised collar, in the Venetian style, is left open to allow a glimpse of the white shirt underneath.
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For example, accenting the last syllable of "lily" and rhyming it with "die" parodies two of these devices at once.Williams, p. 175, discussing the parody of poetic styles in Patience, including Gilbert's satiric use of the poetic devices criticised in Robert Williams Buchanan's essay "The Fleshly School of Poetry", The Contemporary Review, October 1871. On 10 October 1881, during its original run, Patience transferred to the new Savoy Theatre, the first public building in the world lit entirely by electric light.
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Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; I would my true love did so chance To see the legend of my play, To call my true love to my dance; Chorus (sung after each verse) Sing, oh! my love, oh! my love, my love, my love, This have I done for my true love. Then was I born of a virgin pure, Of her I took fleshly substance Thus was I knit to man's nature To call my true love to my dance.
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In the nineteenth century, a medical examination of St Cuthbert's remains found that there was still some evidence of fleshly preservation, thus lending credence to the Anglo-Saxon claim that his body was preserved following its original burial. Such preservation may have resulted from the particular conditions of the soil into which he had been placed, or it may have been that the body had been deliberately embalmed; the latter concept was known in Anglo-Saxon England, for instance appearing in a reference by Bede.
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Also during the Amarna Period, the change in style might be a result of a change in theology and religion. Akhenaton's depiction is "the most extreme variation from the standard canon... showing the king with an elongated neck, drooping jaw, and fleshly feminine body".Brewer and Teeter, p.205 That is so to serve the king's new theological program that referred to him as "the agent of creation" and in order to emphasize his "role of androgynous creator god (both male and female at the same time), hence the feminine features of the king".
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All of the species have simple, smooth-edged, leathery leaves and much-branched panicles of small white flowers with recurving petals and conspicuous stamens. The fruits are small drupes with a fleshly appendage on one side attached to the fruit, termed a pseudoaril. The African species (Apodytes dimidiata) is grown for its attractive display of white blossom and red and black fruit, as well as for shade, screening and hedges. It is also grown in southern Africa for ornament and timber, and a bark preparation is used to drive out intestinal parasites.
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Calvin recognizes that all sorts of fancies rise up in the mind, and he exhorts the individual to exercise choice and discipline to shifting one's thoughts away from fleshly desires and passions. Calvin asserts that God's intention in the command is to prohibit every kind of perverse desire.John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book Two, Chapter 8, Section 50 Matthew Henry sees the tenth commandment striking at the root of many sins by forbidding all desire that may yield injury to one's neighbor. The language of discontent and envy are forbidden in the heart and mind.
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Against Catholics, Reformed confessions teach that the bread and wine of the Supper do not become the blood and body of Christ, as in the Catholic view of transubstantiation. Against Lutherans, Reformed confessions do not teach that partakers of the Supper physically eat Christ's body and drink his blood with their mouths (). While Reformed confessions teach that in the Supper Christ is received in both his divine and human natures, the manner of eating is believed to be spiritual ('). The body and blood of Christ remain fleshly substance, but they are communicated to the partaker in a spiritual manner.
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In 1997, he was winner of the painting category in the Philippe Charriol Foundation Art Competition. Shieh emerged in the 1990s with solo shows Femme Fatales: Drawings by Shieh Ka Ho (Fringe 1995) and Fleshly - Chinese Fine- brush Paintings by Wilson Shieh (1998). More recent works include Chow Yun Fat Fitting Room in 2009. His work is part of public collections including those of the Heritage Museum and Museum of Art in Hong Kong, the National Gallery of the United States, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Queensland Art Gallery.
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The most important representation of Giorgi I in historical fiction is probably in Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's magnum opus, The Hand of the Great Master. The author has often noted that he has been deeply interested in George's character and historical figure for a long time, as well as his reign full of turmoil and turbulence. In the story, the king is portrayed as a philanderer who enjoys feasting in low-class taverns with his comrades disguised as random peasants. The author seems to be emphasizing on the king's human, fleshly wishes and desires despite his position on the social ladder, such as lust, love, loathing and compassion.
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Caterpillar Adults inhabit the periphery of lowland tropical to subtropical forests, fields, and along streams, where they feed on flower nectar. Reproduction is continuous in the tropics, whereas in temperate areas several broods are produced from July to November. The caterpillars are grey white to green with several transverse rows of fleshly black spines; they feed primarily on acanthus shrubs, especially Anisacanthus wrightii and Odontonema callistachus (in Texas), upon which adult females lay their eggs. The crimson patch can reach high numbers in the Rio Grande Valley, but the population is periodically killed off by cold snaps; the area is then recolonized by members of the Mexican population.
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Porter, pp. 291–292; Waller, p. 85; Whitelock, pp. 226–227 Philip was unhappy at the conditions imposed, but he was ready to agree for the sake of securing the marriage.Porter, pp. 308–309; Whitelock, p. 229 He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, "the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries."Letter of 29 July 1554 in the Calendar of State Papers, Spanish, volume XIII, quoted in Porter, p.
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When > swallowed by pride or ambition, or hatred, or jealousy, look at the star, > call upon Mary. Should anger, or avarice, or fleshly desire violently assail > the frail vessel of your soul, look at the star, call upon Mary. If troubled > on account of the heinousness of your sins, distressed at the filthy state > of your conscience, and terrified at the thought of the awful judgment to > come, you are beginning to sink into the bottomless gulf of sadness and to > be swallowed in the abyss of despair, then think of Mary. In dangers, in > doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary.
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Besides the animal soul, which is derived from the "Supreme powers" and is common to all creatures, man possesses a special soul. This special soul, which is a direct emanation from God, existed before the creation of the world. Through the medium of man it enters the material life; and at the dissolution of its medium it either returns to its original source or enters the body of another man. This belief is, according to Nachmanides, the basis of the levirate marriage, the child of which inherits not only the name of the brother of his fleshly father, but also his soul, and thus continues its existence on the earth.
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From Sandip's point of view, "when reality has to meet the unreal, deception is its principal weapon; for its enemies always try to shame Reality by calling it gross, and so it needs must hide itself, or else put on some disguise" (Tagore 55). To Sandip, reality consists of being "gross", "true", "flesh", "passion", "hunger, unashamed and cruel" (Tagore 55). On the other hand, Nikhil's view is more concerned with controlling one's passions and living life in a moral way. He believes that it is, "a part of human nature to try and rise superior to itself", rather than living recklessly by acting on instinct and fleshly desires (Tagore 57).
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However, we distinguish this bread and wine from other bread which is dedicated to habitual use, because this is a sacramental sign, which the truth is infallibly received. Nevertheless, this receipt is made only by the faith and we cannot imagine as being fleshly, neither prepare the teeth to eat, as said St. Augustine: "Why do you prepares the teeth and the stomach? Believe, and you have eaten." Therefore, the sign does not give us the truth, neither the thing which is denoted; but our Lord Jesus Christ, by His power, virtue and kindness feeds and preserves our souls, and make they partners in His flesh and His blood, and all of His benefactions.
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Let us see the explanation of Jesus' words: "This is my body." Tertullian, in the fourth book against Marcion, explain in this way: "this is the sign and the figure of my body." St. Augustine says: "The Lord doesn't avoid to say: 'This is my body', when he just give the sign of his body." Hence (as it is ordered in the first canon of the Council of Nicea), in this holy sacrament we can't imagine nothing fleshly and distract in the bread and the wine, which are proposed by signs, but elevate our spirit to the skies and contemplate by the faith the Son of God, our Lord Jesus, seat at the right of God, His Father.
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Feric summarily executes him with the Great Truncheon. Jaggar coerces the Council into granting him complete executive power and then has them shot. Immediately after assuming power Jaggar puts down an imminent coup by Stopa, who has been corrupted by the fleshly pleasures of Zind. Backed by the army and the adoring multitudes, Feric sets about the great task of re-invigorating the military, ordering the production of tanks and fighter jets, the establishment of the Swastika Squad (SS)—a legion of the purest and most manly men that can be found via the "Classification Camps", which examine all citizens of Heldon (killing the Doms and sterilizing or exiling all relatively impure humans).
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The Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller translated these sections as Among Fools and Kings, Passionate Encounters and Refuge in the Forest respectively. Especially in the Vairāgyaśataka, but also in the other two, his poetry displays the depth and intensity of his renunciation as he vacillates between the pursuits of fleshly desires and those of the spirit. Thus it reveals the conflict experienced "between a profound attraction to sensual beauty and the yearning for liberation from it", showing how "most great Indian art could be at once so sensuous and so spiritual".Miller, Foreword and Introduction There is great variation between versions of his Śatakas, and together the available manuscripts have over 700 verses instead of 300.
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The informants asserted that they had heard of her "from their parents"...... Julia was a Carthaginian girl who, after being captured from her city, came into the service of a man named Eusebius. Vitensis does not say how she came into service, but the statement is usually interpreted that she was sold as a slave after Gaiseric captured Carthage in 439. It is known that he disposed of many recalcitrant Christians in this way, especially women. As a young and strong female, Julia would have brought a good price for the Vandals (who later turned to piracy, including slave-dealing.) Vitensis says that she served "a fleshly master" but she followed and .
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This sequel has a slightly more contemporary feel than In His Steps, in that this cast includes characters who openly declare opposing aims and a mean-spirited skepticism of Christ. By playing its own devil's advocate, through voiced skepticism, and keeping the plot more uncertain, the book and its conflicts become more interesting. A Christian might read the story simply to find out how long the fiction of a fleshly Christ, even of the late 1800s / early 1900s, can be sustained. Issues do gradually emerge through the book that date it, however; the book embodies strong Prohibitionist and Temperance views on tobacco, alcohol, college fraternities, and other questions of the period that do not reflect prevailing contemporary approaches to those issues.
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St. Augustine by Peter Paul Rubens The view that not only human soul but also senses were influenced by the fall of Adam and Eve was prevalent in Augustine's time among the Fathers of the Church. Cf. John Chrysostom, Περι παρθενίας (De Sancta Virginitate), XIV, 6; SCh 125, 142–145; Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man, 17; SCh 6, 164–165; and On Virginity, 12.2; SCh 119, 402 [17–20]. Cf. Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Marriage, 2.2; PL 40, 374. It is clear the reason for Augustine's distancing from the affairs of the flesh was different from that of Plotinus, a Neoplatonist who taught that only through disdain for fleshly desire could one reach the ultimate state of mankind.
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Jessica A. Coope observes in her book the Martyrs of Córdoba that Alvarus's writing, especially about Islam and Muhammed, “borders on hysterical” but its execution was intelligent and calculated.Coope, Martyrs of Córdoba, 50. In a short section of text Alvarus goes on to write: Muslims are puffed up with pride, languid in the enjoyments of the fleshly acts, extravagant in eating, greedy usurpers in the acquisition of possessions... without honour, without truth, unfamiliar with kindness or compassion... fickle, crafty, cunning and indeed not halfway but completely befouled in the dregs of every impurity, deriding humility as insanity, rejecting chastity as thought it were filthy, disparaging virginity as though it were the uncleanness of harlotry, putting the vices of the body before the virtues of the soul. Alvarus, Indiculus Luminosus, trans.
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Any interference between the two, especially in the form of a mediating force such as a church government or a liturgy, would hinder this connection. When individuals push for a religious structure, they try to make the individual metaphorically physical so: > that they might bring the inward acts of the Spirit to the outward, and > customary ey-Service of the body, as if they could make God earthly, and > fleshly, because they could not make themselves heavenly, and Spirituall: > they began to draw downe all the Divine intercours, betwixt God, and the > Soule, yea, the very shape of God himselfe, into an exterior, and bodily > forme.Milton 1953 p. 520 Although God does have a shape, he is without a physical body and his existence is above human perception.
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Wimber was very outspoken about maintaining authenticity and doing nothing for religious effect. He wasn't happy with the way some services were run, was "angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer," "pushing people over and calling it the power of God," and accepting money for healing ministry. Wimber was not against manifestations in a service as long as they were real moves of God and not "fleshly and brought out by some sort of display, or promoted by somebody on stage" In a 1996 Christianity Today article, Wimber told the story of someone he claimed was supernaturally healed, but he also shared stories of other people who were not healed. He was personally fighting cancer at that time.
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The canon is quoted in full here because it explains the Russian Orthodox theology on the subject: > Chapter 2, §44: It is most absurd and improper to depict in icons the Lord > Sabaoth (that is to say, God the Father) with a grey beard and the Only- > Begotten Son in His bosom with a dove between them, because no-one has seen > the Father according to His Divinity, and the Father has no flesh, nor was > the Son born in the flesh from the Father before the ages. And though David > the prophet says, "From the womb before the morning star have I begotten > Thee" (Ps.109:3), that birth was not fleshly, but unspeakable and > incomprehensible. For Christ Himself says in the holy Gospel, "No man hath > seen the Father, save the Son" (cf. ).
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Monergism states that the regeneration of an individual is the work of God through the Holy Spirit alone, as opposed to Synergism, which, in its simplest form, argues that the human will cooperates with God's grace in order to be regenerated. To most synergists, regeneration is a process that begins when a man responds to God's initiative, repents, and begins the labor of loving God and his neighbor. Monergists believe that regeneration takes place as a single act in which God regenerates a man from his fleshly state and, thus now enabled, a man can believe, and that he inevitably and invariably will do so. While most synergists hold that God initiates all the work but that the work of salvation requires man's "free will," monergists maintain that God alone initiates and completes all the work of salvation.
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This "unseemly" being their Mystery of divine bliss, he states; "that heavenly, sublime, felicity, that absence of all form which is the real source of every form." And baptism applied to none save the man who was introduced into this divine bliss, being washed with the Living Water, and "anointed with the Ineffable Chrism from the Horn, like David [was],1 Samuel 16:13 not from the flask of clay, like Saul,1 Samuel 10:1 who was fellowcitizen with an evil daemon of fleshly desire."Hippolytus Philosophumena 5, 4 The Hermetic alchemists asserted that the Great Work was an opus contra naturam; Paul's use of "against nature" (παρὰ φύσιν, ) may have been given a similar allegorical meaning by the Naassene exegete. It is certainly possible that the Naassenes viewed homosexuality as exemplifying their concept of androgyny.
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In the third section, the music subsides, depicting Dante's request to speak with the doomed lovers (depicted by a solo clarinet), who recount their story of how Francesca was unwittingly married by proxy to Gianciotto Malatesta, Paolo's older, cruel and unattractive brother; the music continues to depict how they were unable to resist their fleshly attraction for each other and succumbed to their passion while reading a passage of the story of Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot [another pair of equally doomed lovers], depicted by the wind section supported by the strings in the moments of highest passion. The music also depicts the moment of their murder at the hands of Gianciotto, depicted by fast playing bassi and cymbals, followed by sombre horns in a requiem like theme. After their tale is over, the final section starts, depicting the eternal punishment that continues once more, leaving Dante (and the audience) in a state of shock depicted by the ominous tutti of the orchestra.
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Charles De Tolnay wrote that > The oldest writers, Dominicus Lampsonius and Karel van Mander, attached > themselves to his most evident side, to the subject; their conception of > Bosch, inventor of fantastic pieces of devilry and of infernal scenes, which > prevails today (1937) in the public at large, and prevailed with historians > until the last quarter of the 19th century.Grange Books, 23 Generally, his work is described as a warning against lust, and the central panel as a representation of the transience of worldly pleasure. In 1960, the art historian Ludwig von Baldass wrote that Bosch shows "how sin came into the world through the Creation of Eve, how fleshly lusts spread over the entire earth, promoting all the Deadly Sins, and how this necessarily leads straight to Hell".von Baldass, 84 De Tolnay wrote that the center panel represents "the nightmare of humanity", where "the artist's purpose above all is to show the evil consequences of sensual pleasure and to stress its ephemeral character".
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Pastor Russell, founder of the Watch Tower Society In 1870, Charles Taze Russell and others formed a group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study the Bible. During the course of his ministry, Russell disputed many beliefs of mainstream Christianity including immortality of the soul, hellfire, predestination, the fleshly return of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, and the burning up of the world. In 1876, Russell met Nelson H. Barbour; later that year they jointly produced the book Three Worlds, which combined restitutionist views with end time prophecy. The book taught that God's dealings with humanity were divided dispensationally, each ending with a "harvest," that Christ had returned as an invisible spirit being in 1874 inaugurating the "harvest of the Gospel age," and that 1914 would mark the end of a 2520-year period called "the Gentile Times," at which time world society would be replaced by the full establishment of God's kingdom on earth.
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180) recounts how God has recorded the sins of men of old (David and Solomon) > for our instruction . . . that we might know, in the first place, that our > God and theirs is one, and that sins do not please Him although committed by > men of renown; and in the second place, that we should keep from wickedness. > For if these men of old time, who preceded us in the gifts [bestowed upon > them], and for whom the Son of God had not yet suffered, when they committed > any sin and served fleshly lusts, were rendered objects of such disgrace, > what shall the men of the present day suffer, who have despised the Lord’s > coming, and become the slaves of their own lusts? And truly the death of the > Lord became [the means of] healing and remission of sins to the former, but > Christ shall not die again in behalf of those who now commit sin, for death > shall no more have dominion over Him. . . .
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John Calvin understood the commandment against adultery to extend to sexual relations outside of marriage: “Although one kind of impurity is alone referred to, it is sufficiently plain, from the principle laid down, that believers are generally exhorted to chastity; for, if the Law be a perfect rule of holy living, it would be more than absurd to give a license for fornication (sexual relations between persons not married to each other), adultery alone being excepted.” Matthew Henry understood the commandment against adultery to prohibit sexual immorality in general, and he acknowledged the difficulty people experience: “This commandment forbids all acts of uncleanness, with all those fleshly lusts which produce those acts and war against the soul.”Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the whole Bible, comments on Exodus 20:14 read online Henry supports his interpretation with Matthew 5:28, where Jesus warns that whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Regarding the above passage, Matthew Henry comments: “Here you have, 1.
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