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61DEATH — In the Bible The Hebrew word for death is mavet (mawet) (Heb. מָוֶת) from the root mvt (mwt). For the Canaanites, Mwt (Mot) was the god of the underworld. Details of the myth of Mot are found in ugaritic literature. Mot fought against baal , the… …
62ETHICS — IN THE BIBLE There is no abstract, comprehensive concept in the Bible which parallels the modern concept of ethics. The term musar designates ethics in later Hebrew, but in the Bible it indicates merely the educational function fulfilled by the… …
63FORGIVENESS — FORGIVENESS, the act of absolving or pardoning; the state of being pardoned. In the Bible The biblical concept of forgiveness presumes, in its oldest strata, that sin is a malefic force that adheres to the sinner and that forgiveness is the… …
64JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …
65REPENTANCE — is a prerequisite for divine forgiveness: God will not pardon man unconditionally but waits for him to repent. In repentance man must experience genuine remorse for the wrong he has committed and then convert his penitential energy into concrete… …
66Sinner — Sin ner, n. One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God. [1913 Webster] …
67Immaculate Conception — For the novel by Gaétan Soucy, see The Immaculate Conception. Immaculata redirects here. For other uses, see Immaculata (disambiguation). La Purisima Inmaculada Concepcion by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1678, now in Museo del Prado, Spain. The… …
68Tartarus — Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black figure amphora, ca. 530 BC. This article is about the deity and the place in Greek mythology. For other uses, see Tartarus (disambiguation) …
69Arjuna — For other uses, see Arjuna (disambiguation). A statue of Arjuna on a street in Bali Arjuna (Devanagari: अर्जुन, Thai: อรชุน, Orachun, Tamil: Arjunan, Indonesian and Javanese: Harjuna, Harjuno, Herjuno, Malay: Ranjuna; pronounced [ɐrˈɟunɐ] in… …
70Repentance — For other uses, see Repentance (disambiguation). Repentance is a change of thought to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged. In religious contexts it usually refers to confession to God, ceasing sin against God, and… …
