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... face - to - face resolution of the matter with God . Goridis's rendering of what 4 The Book of God and Man : A Study of Job , by Robert Gordis , Chicago and London , 1965 , p . 87 . he considers a transitory moment of mystical vision in ...
... face - to - face resolution of the matter with God . Goridis's rendering of what 4 The Book of God and Man : A Study of Job , by Robert Gordis , Chicago and London , 1965 , p . 87 . he considers a transitory moment of mystical vision in ...
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... face shalt thou eat bread ' , God says to man in Genesis , particularizing a central part of his punishment . But ... face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite ...
... face shalt thou eat bread ' , God says to man in Genesis , particularizing a central part of his punishment . But ... face divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite ...
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... face the post - lapsarian world with hope and dignity . They leave Paradise , now made terrible by armed cherubim ... Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : Som natural tears they drop'd , but wip'd them soon ; The World was all before them ...
... face the post - lapsarian world with hope and dignity . They leave Paradise , now made terrible by armed cherubim ... Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : Som natural tears they drop'd , but wip'd them soon ; The World was all before them ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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