... beauty itself becomes convincing. Beauty becomes a messenger of and from God--as Iris was to the Greek and the rainbow to the Hebrew (Eccl 3:11). This from ...

1 Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat. 13 The two thousand three hundred days of the suspension of the daily sacrifice. 15 Gabriel comforts Daniel, and ...

[8:9] sn The expression the beautiful land (Heb. הַצֶּבִי [hatsÿvi] = “the beauty”) is a cryptic reference to the land of Israel. Cf. 11:16, 41, where ...

The Beloved to Her Lover: 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside;. let us spend the night in the villages.

The Lover to His Beloved: 8:13 O you who stay in the gardens,. my companions are listening attentively for your voice;. let me be the one to hear it!

He wanted to show the people and the officials her beauty, for she was very attractive. ... The placement of this additional material in certain Greek manuscripts ...

7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it ...

Philip a man who was one of the twelve apostles,a son of Herod the Great; husband of Herodias; ruler of Iturea and Traconitis north and west of Galilee,a ...

3:8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a particular people that is dispersed and spread among the inhabitants throughout all the provinces of your ...

31:30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting,. but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised. 31:31 ...