Word: lazarus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, the idea of flames became associated with the life of the wicked in their part of Sheol. Jesus, says Life and Death, used this as a figure of speech in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, and he was not threatening his hearers with fearful torment so much as reminding them that life is set within a divine order in which man reaps the harvest of his deeds. "We have no right," says the committee, "on the basis of this parable, to go further than this and interpret Hell as the place of everlasting fiery torment...
...Lazzaretto, from Lazarus, an isolation hospital; named for Microbe Hunter Lazaro Spallanzani...
Wrathfully, Catherine lectures her bullfighter: "You said the scum of Europe came to us, and perhaps they did, but the strong ones came first . . . well, there's a poem on the Statue of Liberty . . ." And sure enough, she quotes Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your poor'') for five lines. Repentantly the torero discovers the real America: accepting the yanqui dollar, the moral seems to be, does not mean wearing the yanqui collar...
...Jimson, is that no self respecting woman would let herself be painted like that." There is also a soft but deceitful matron, to whom Jimson was once married, and a Lord and his wife whose wall Jimson must have to paint his great panorama of the rising of Lazarus. He finally gets dead drunk in their living room, imports a number of oriental types whose feet he wants to paint, and, quoting lines from the omnipresent Blake, sets to work...
...context in which a word appears, or the context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord," said Martha, "he has been dead four days. By this time he will be decaying...