You might even say that Anne serves as an American name for the tempter Mara, personification of desire in the Buddhist cosmology. |
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Herewith a brief taste of this fine book on the art of corrupting humans as described in the letters of a senior tempter to his nephew Wormwood. |
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One other slant on this whole thing is that some Gnostic sects believed the Serpent not to be a tempter, but to be a Redeemer. |
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The walk is visually stunning for anyone used to a dry, brown landscape, and a serious tempter for more. |
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The reply of our Lord to the tempter seems purposely framed so as to include both latria and dulia. |
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The devil is a prominent character in the film, and takes the role of tempter and power broker. |
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The tempter first told Jesus to transform stones into bread, manifesting here his relationship with things. |
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His own people and the principals had denied Him as a tempter and sentenced Him to die like a criminal. How could this be the Messiah? |
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His reaction has the ability of showing us that by resisting the cunningness of the tempter we become stronger. |
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Satan as the tempter in Paradise Regained fails in his unceasing endeavours to subvert Jesus by various means in the wilderness. |
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Or do you also believe that the tempter has power over Creation and over the elements to deceive you? |
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See how man carries within him his own tempter, that is why I have said that when he can manage to overcome himself, he will have won the battle. |
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When I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain. |
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Satan is the insidious tempter who whispers in men's hearts. |
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Many varieties of religion have long spoken about a Satan or tempter. |
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From the evil of the whispering elusive tempter, the covert desire. |
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This was not out of unbelief that His prayer would not be heard, but because HHe had already known that the tempter would attack Him constantly within the coming hours to overcome His obedience to God's will. |
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Les Wheatley tempted three rainbows on a Buzzer from the west end, with Bloodworms also a good tempter late in the season. |
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It's not as difficult as the tempter would have us believe. |
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Finally, the tempter asked Jesus to prostrate himself and adore him. |
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Thus he doesn't oppose God, but works within his plans as a tempter, therefore human can master his imperfect nature and recognize good. |
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil' Humankind needs practice in exposing the tempter, for the rhetoric of evil is beautiful, not diabolical. |
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A Modern Mephistopheles, which was published pseudonymously in 1877 and republished in 1987, is a Gothic novel about a failed poet who makes a Faustian bargain with his tempter. |
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Iblīs next appears as the tempter of in the Garden of Eden. |
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His grapples with the Tempter are portrayed in dark, unsettling detail. |
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There is little appreciation of the documented tricks of The Tempter. |
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