... and Christian interpretations of Genesis 6:4, "There were giants in the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men, who bore children to them" (Holland Crossley, 15). Many of Grendel's appellations are unquestionable epithets of Satan such as "enemy of mankind," "God's adversary," "the devil in hell," and "the hell slave ... lives-that the God of Old was kind to her in childbearing" (Kermode, 45), and the remark of a woman to Christ in Luke 11:27, "Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the breasts that thou hast sucked." Also,...

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... was told and retold by different authors using slightly varying tales. For instance, Hesiod's "Theogony" contains a story about Zeus and Demeter. "After Zeus slept with Demeter who nurtures many,/she bore white-armed Persephone, whom Aidoneus/snatched away from her mother with the consent of wise Zeus." (Harris and Platzner 75). If Greek poetry talked about love, romance or sex, it ... " by Sappho shows the use of several gods in one poem within very few lines. "Now Leto and Niobe were very dear companions/to Phoibos the Goldenhaired whom Koios" daughter bore/to Kronos" Son of mighty nam...

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... , was to be Augustine's most frequent sin. He was a 17 year old college student in Carthage (Book 3, Chapter 1) when he first committed this act. Later, he took on a concubine which bore him a son, Adeodatus (Book 4, Chapter 2) "In those years I lived with a woman who was not bound to me by lawful marriage; she was one who had come my way because of ... ...

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... to spare Isaac and rewards Abraham with a formal renewal of his promise, that of a son. According to Islamic tradition, Hagar presumably the true wife of Ibrahim, as Muslims regard him, bore the sacrificial victim, Ishmael. Christians and Muslims recognize Abraham as an epitome of the man of unswerving faith. The Quran pronounces the relevancy of these prophets, "Say we believe in ... ...

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... gift filled my eyes. As I stepped closer still I became almost bothered by all the individual strokes of the brush, I began to wonder if there was any set relation that they bore to one another, if I could perhaps create a formula for duplicating this, for a tree, or a cloud, or a drop of sunlight. And I lost sight of the painting, timid beauty fled before my ... ...

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... to have a child. Should they do so, this child was cursed to murder his father and impregnate his mother. However, Laius and Jocasta paid no regard to this warning and bore a child, who they abandoned and was later found and reared by a wealthy couple in a near by city. Once Oedipus had grown, an oracle told him that he would kill his ... ...

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... multiple Gnostic themes, including the view that Jesus only appeared to be human, along with the more startling belief that Jesus: himself did not suffer death, but Simon being compelled, bore the cross in his stead; so that this latter being transfigured by him, that he might be thought to be Jesus, was crucified, through ignorance and error, while Jesus himself ... ...

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