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«If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.»
«Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.»
«And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.»
«And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, / And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.»
«Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.»
«CAABA, n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
archangel, archangels, Caaba, Gabriel, patriarch, patriarchs
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abbot, acolyte, archbishop, Archbishop of, archdeacon, beadle, beadles, beneficiaries, beneficiary, bishops, Brahmin, Brahmins, canon, canons, Cardinals, choral, clerks, confessor, confessors, Constantinople, contributory, curate, curates, cures, deacon, deacons, deans, diocesan, divines, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, elders, friar, friars, High Church, imperfectly, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, infidel, infidels, Lama, Monks, New class, niggardly, novice, novices, Nuns, obeah, Parsons, Pastor, pastors, patriarch, patriarchs, pilgrims, popes, preachers, prelate, prelates, presbyter, presbyters, primate, Primates, Prophets, readers, rector, rectors, reverences, reverent, rural, sacristan, scoundrel, scribes, Sellers, sexton, sheik, The Dean, The Infidels, The Novice, vicar, vicars, voodoo
«And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Both of Us, parochial, patriarch, patriarchs, scorning
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