Abraham's bosom
bosom of Abraham

The girl died shortly after Karl himself was gathered to Abraham's bosom.

But now the bishop is safely in Abraham's bosom, and I have been elected to succeed him, for good or ill.

They'll have a priest bellowing in our ears while the firing squad sends us all to Abraham's bosom.

Atop in Latin are the words translated as "The angels carried him into Abraham's bosom".

Now, who wants Abraham's bosom?

By inviting Lazarus to Abraham's bosom, Jesus is redefining the nature of the covenant.

I would as soon have thought of being cheerful in Abraham's bosom as in the palace of an Emperor.

One day the rich man lifted his eyes and saw his neighbor Lazarus laughing and rejoicing in Abraham's bosom.

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Though indeed," he added, "was you to marry every girl you play love-tokens with, when ashore, the place would very soon come to look like Abraham's bosom."

"May Christ, Who has called you, now receive you, and may the angels bring you to Abraham's bosom."

The doctrine holds that Hades has two "compartments", one an unnamed place of torment, the other named Abraham's Bosom.

Quickly, an uneducated innkeeper, has presumably confused the Christian idea of Abraham's bosom with the legend of King Arthur.

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Rose appeared in the 1927 Pulitzer Prize winning play In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green.

Kaskel, entering into the spirit of Lincoln's allusions, replied, "Yes, and that is why they have come unto Father Abraham's bosom seeking protection."

In the 3rd century, Hippolytus of Rome referred to Abraham's bosom as the place in hades where the righteous await judgment day in delight.

And if no God, then no life hereafter; which meant that Nathan was not gathered to his fathers, safe in Abraham's bosom, but a dead thing, rotting in the ground.

Though it may linger for a short period on Earth, it is ultimately escorted either to paradise (Abraham's bosom) or the darkness of Hades, following the Temporary Judgment.

Abraham's bosom contrasts with the destination of a rich man who ends up in Hades (though some religious groups, such as the Seventh-day Adventists regard this as a parable).

You could even top it all up with religious conversion, moving at one hop and without a shadow of repentance from the fashionable SALONS of Paris to Abraham's bosom.

Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.'

Many early Christians identified Abraham's bosom with paradise, where the souls of the righteous go until the resurrection, others were inconstant in their identification of paradise, such as St. Augustine whose views varied.

Scenes include a fragment of the feast of Dives, the soul of Lazarus taken to heaven, the soul of Lazarus on Abraham's bosom and the death of Dives.

By locating Lazarus (an abbreviated transcript of Eleazar) outside the gates of Abraham's perceived descendent, but then having him in Abraham's bosom, Jesus is portrayed as radically redefining the covenant.

One went to the eternal fire, the other to the bosom of Abraham.

She was no mere sweet spirit ripe for the bosom of Abraham.

Who knows when infinity will strike us down and pluck us to the bosom of Abraham?"

Later rabbinical sources preserve several traces of the Bosom of Abraham teaching.

While commentators generally agree upon the meaning of the "Bosom of Abraham", they disagree about its origins.

Consequently identification of Bosom of Abraham with Paradise is contested.

Although no examples of the Bosom of Abraham Trinity have survived in other media, they probably once existed.

"Resurrection," Bill intoned, "the bosom of Abraham, and Virginia.

That is rejected and in contrast to the Eastern Christian concept of the Bosom of Abraham.

May you be received by Christ, Who has called you: and may the angels bring you into the bosom of Abraham.

'Take the soul of this our brother Tosspot,' he continued defiantly, 'into the bosom of Abraham.'

Since the righteous dead are rewarded in the bosom of Abraham before Judgment Day, this belief represents a form of particular judgment.

During the finale the audience, as usual, felt inspired to clap along to "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham."

Tertullian, on the other hand, described the bosom of Abraham as that section of Hades in which the righteous dead await the day of the Lord.

Later Christian writers referred to a similar, interim state of grace as the "Bosom of Abraham" (a term borrowed from the Hebrew Bible).

However, the understanding of both Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy preserves the Bosom of Abraham as distinct from heaven.

In the Bosom of Abraham Trinity, a subject only found in medieval English art, God the Father holds the group, now representing specifically Christian souls.

They adapt an earlier convention where a figure of Abraham himself held tiny figures of souls in a cloth between his hands representing the Bosom of Abraham.

Later Hippolytus of Rome expanded on this parable and described activity in the Bosom of Abraham in Against Plato.

During the dance's full-company finale, "Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham," Mr. Williams is front and center.

"Bosom of Abraham" refers to the place of comfort in sheol (Greek: hades) where the Jews said the righteous dead awaited Judgment Day.

In this myth Abraham was not idle in the Bosom of Abraham, he acted as intercessor for those in the fiery part of Hades.

To Michael and Kwaque, the daily, even hourly, recognition and consideration of Dag Daughtry was tantamount to resting continuously in the bosom of Abraham.

Neither the old man nor the young utter a cry, and Fairleigh was convinced that when their spir departed they entered heaven to take their place in t bosom of Abraham.

"Bosom Of Abraham" (Performed by Elvis, J.D. Sumner, and the Stamps Quartet during an informal gospel music jam session.)