Biblical Allusions 5

Question 1

the traditional name for the set of disasters that God inflicted on Egypt before the pharaoh let Moses lead the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land; included swarms of locusts, hordes of frogs, and a scourge of boils; after the tenth one, in which the angel of Death killed every Egyptian firstborn male child, including the pharaoh’s son, the pharaoh finally freed the Israelites

Answer 1

Plagues of Egypt

Question 2

a figure in a parable of Jesus; a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him

Answer 2

Prodigal son

Question 3

Canaan, the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants; Heaven

Answer 3

Promised Land

Question 4

the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom

Answer 4

Queen of Sheba

Question 5

after the Israelites were freed after the plagues, Moses held out his staff, and the Red Sea was separated into two halves by God

Answer 5

Parting of the Red Sea

Question 6

the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels; widely quoted summary of the relationship between Christianity and secular authority

Answer 6

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that God’s

Question 7

the rising again of Christ from the tomb three days after his death

Answer 7

Resurrection

Question 8

the final book of the New Testament; often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse; begins with an epistolary address to the reader followed by an apocalyptic description of a complex series of events derived from prophetic visions which the author claims to have seen

Answer 8

The Book of Revelation

Question 9

a Moabite woman, who left her own people to remain with her mother-in-law Naomi, and became the wife of Boaz; an ancestress of David; known for her kindness and faithfulness

Answer 9

Ruth

Question 10

a phrase uttered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount; he tells his followers they are this

Answer 10

Salt of the Earth

Question 11

deliverance by redemption from the power of sin and from the penalties ensuing from it

Answer 11

Salvation

Question 12

the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment

Answer 12

Second Coming

Question 13

a discourse delivered by Jesus to the disciples and others, containing the Beatitudes and important fundamentals of Christian teaching

Answer 13

Sermon on the Mount

Question 14

the creature in the Book of Genesis that tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, thus committing the first act of the Fall of Man; in the New Testament, the serpent of Genesis is identified with Satan

Answer 14

Serpent

Question 15

the commandments summarizing the basic obligations of man towards God and his fellow men, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai engraved on two tables of stone

Answer 15

Ten Commandments

Question 16

contained in one of the Poetry and Wisdom books of the Bible, this particular passage lists 14 “opposites”; the underlying significance in the poem denotes a divinely chosen purpose for everything we experience in our lives

Answer 16

Time to be born and a time to die

Question 17

a tenth part of agricultural or other produce, personal income, or profits, contributed either voluntarily or as a tax for the support of the church or clergy or for charitable purposes

Answer 17

Tithe

Question 18

an adaptation of a command of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that means to not seek revenge

Answer 18

Turn the other cheek

Question 19

an expression from the Twenty-third Psalm that stands for the perils of life, from which God protects believers

Answer 19

Valley of the shadow of death

Question 20

a miraculous act performed by Jesus; he walked on the Sea of Galilee to rejoin his disciples, who had departed ahead of him in a ship; when he reached the ship, the winds that had been blowing stopped, and the disciples worshiped him as the true son of God

Answer 20

Walking on water

Question 21

part of a longer promise of fidelity, spoken by Ruth to Naomi, her mother-in-law

Answer 21

Whither thou goest, I will go

Question 22

a metaphor for false prophets, adapted from words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount

Answer 22

Wolves in sheep’s clothing