bosom of abraham in a sentence
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- During the Second Temple period ( roughly 500 BCE 70 CE ) the concept of a Bosom of Abraham first occurs in Jewish papyri that refer to the " Bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ".
- During the Second Temple period ( roughly 500 BCE 70 CE ) the concept of a Bosom of Abraham first occurs in Jewish papyri that refer to the " Bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ".
- Allusions to Lazarus as a poor beggar taken to the " Bosom of Abraham " should be understood as referring to the Lazarus mentioned in Luke, rather than the Lazarus who rose from the dead in John.
- Out of the later frescoes, " Paradise and the Bosom of Abraham " and " Satan on the Two-Headed Beast " are notable Last Judgement depictions, dated to 1577-8.
- Jesus here depicts a wicked man suffering fiery torment in " hades ", which is contrasted with the bosom of Abraham, and explains that it is impossible to cross over from one to the other.
- Among Christian writers, since the 1st century AD, " the Bosom of Abraham " has gradually ceased to designate a place of imperfect happiness, especially in the Western Hades in which the righteous dead await the day of the Lord.
- Ailey used traditional music to create a community of pilgrims whose journey takes them from the mournful contrition of the opening " I Been'Buked " to the boisterous celebration of the final " Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham ."
- There is a subject apparently unique to English alabasters, the Bosom of Abraham Trinity, a variant of the " Throne of Mercy " which is more often found, and with the Madonna and Child, is often a larger free-standing statue such as the Westminster example.
- Hippolytus of Rome pictures the underworld ( Hades ) as a place where the righteous dead, awaiting in the bosom of Abraham their resurrection, rejoice at their future prospect, while the unrighteous are tormented at the sight of the " lake of unquenchable fire " into which they are destined to be cast.
- The "'Bosom of Abraham Trinity "', also known as the "'Trinity with souls "', is a rare iconography apparently unique to English medieval alabaster sculpture, of which only twelve examples are known to have survived, although there were undoubtedly many more made.