Bibical Allusions - New Testament Flashcards
Blind leading the blind
Lack of spiritual enlightenment
Armageddon
Refers to an apocalyptic climax or to a time of judgment
By bread alone
Faith can provide spiritual sustenance
Camel through a needle’s eye
It would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven
Cast the first stone
Warning against hypocrisy
Conversion of Saul
One of the major figures in the early Christian church
Crucifixion
The sacrifice that redeemed fallen humankind
Divide the sheep from the goats
Alludes to the division of the true from the false, the worthy from the unworthy
Four horsemen of the apocalypse
Symbolic of powerful destructive forces
Garden of Gethsemane
A place of great physical or psychological suffering
Good Samaritan
Anyone who stops to help a stranger in need
Grail or Holy Grail
Brings health and sustenance to those who hold it and may be found only by the pure heart
Herod
“To author Herod” is to surpass the evil of the worst tyrant
House had many mansions
There is room in heaven for all who believe
John the Baptist
The forerunner of Christ’s ministry
Judas Iscariot
The prototype of the ultimate betrayer
Know them by their fruits
Entreats us to judge others by their actions, rather than by appearances
Lamb to the slaughter
Referred to as the sacrificial lamb
Last Supper
In consuming the bread and wine, followers of Christ accept him as their savior
Lazarus
Symbolic of one who lives after a declared death
Lilies of the field
An example of the way God cares for the faithful
Magi
“The Epiphany”; moments of enlightenment
Mammon
Personifies the evils of greed and wealth
Mary (the Virgin)
Symbolic of purity, virginity, and maternal love
