Biblical Allusions 5 Flashcards
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
Plagues of Egypt
a figure in a parable of Jesus; a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him
Prodigal son
Canaan, the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants; Heaven
Promised Land
the queen who visited Solomon to test his wisdom
Queen of Sheba
after the Israelites were freed after the plagues, Moses held out his staff, and the Red Sea was separated into two halves by God
Parting of the Red Sea
the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels; widely quoted summary of the relationship between Christianity and secular authority
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that God’s
the rising again of Christ from the tomb three days after his death
Resurrection
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
The Book of Revelation
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
Ruth
a phrase uttered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount; he tells his followers they are this
Salt of the Earth
deliverance by redemption from the power of sin and from the penalties ensuing from it
Salvation
the prophesied return of Christ to earth at the Last Judgment
Second Coming
a discourse delivered by Jesus to the disciples and others, containing the Beatitudes and important fundamentals of Christian teaching
Sermon on the Mount
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
Serpent
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
Ten Commandments
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
Time to be born and a time to die
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
Tithe
an adaptation of a command of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount that means to not seek revenge
Turn the other cheek
an expression from the Twenty-third Psalm that stands for the perils of life, from which God protects believers
Valley of the shadow of death
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
Walking on water
part of a longer promise of fidelity, spoken by Ruth to Naomi, her mother-in-law
Whither thou goest, I will go
a metaphor for false prophets, adapted from words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
