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The rushing children were hell cut loose in a vast pinball table, a colliding, and banging, and totaling of hits and misses, thrusts and plungings to a grand and as yet unforeseen total of brutalities.
I'm reading this because I once saw it on TV when I was a child and the story scared me so much then.
“I saw an extremely strong, sparkling, fiery light coming from the open heavens. It pierced my brain, my heart and my breast through and through like a flame which did not burn; however it warmed me. It heated me up very much like the sun warms an object on which it is pouring out rays.”
― Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
― Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
“καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν πρὸ πάντων and he is before all things”
― GREEK GRAMMAR GEMS: A Guide to the Ways New Testament Greek Expresses Emphasis
― GREEK GRAMMAR GEMS: A Guide to the Ways New Testament Greek Expresses Emphasis
“Josephus, writing in the first century, recorded that Herod had a number of Torah scholars burned alive for removing Rome’s golden eagles from the Temple gates. He also had his wife and a few of his sons murdered simply for considering them a threat to his royal throne.”
― Bible Believer's Archaeology - Volume 2 - The Search for Truth
― Bible Believer's Archaeology - Volume 2 - The Search for Truth
“The interrogative מִי is used idiomatically with the verb נָתַן in Psalm 14: 7 to emphasize the psalmist's desire that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion. מִ֥י יִתֵּ֣ן מִצִּיּוֹן֘ יְשׁוּעַ֪ת יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל If only the salvation of Israel would come from Zion”
― Hebrew Grammar Gold: A Guide To The Ways Old Testament Hebrew Expresses Emphasis
― Hebrew Grammar Gold: A Guide To The Ways Old Testament Hebrew Expresses Emphasis
“And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.”
― The Holy Bible: American Standard Version, ASV
― The Holy Bible: American Standard Version, ASV
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