Word: prophetizer
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...versions, some are quotations from Jesus known only through the writings of the early church fathers, and some are completely unknown. The word-for-word repetitions include the sayings about the mote and the beam, the blind leading the blind, that which is hidden and must be revealed, the prophet not without honor save in his own country, "to him that has shall be given," leaving one's father and mother to follow Jesus, and some of the Beatitudes, e.g., the poor having the kingdom of heaven. Many parables are also included: the sower, the thief in the night...
...seventy-eight the Maestro is not yet finished with concocting enigmas. For the past six decades we have learned to recognize many Picassos: Picasso the archpriest of modern art, heir to Cezanne; Picasso the innovator and incorrigible prophet; Picasso the virtuoso of an infinitely flexible technique; Picasso the wit, even the coquette...
...Mosul rebellion, cried Kassem, ordering the expulsion of nine Egyptian diplomats. "The curtain is raised," trumpeted Baghdad's daily Al Thawra. "Abdel Nasser is revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser to the rank of prophet have been exposed. Gamal Abdel Nasser has sent arms to Mosul for fighting because he wanted to annex Iraq and add it to his kingdom...
...sneer at "praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude "always involves the danger of speaking after the imagination of our own hearts. It is subject to Jeremiah's condemnation about the false prophets...
...soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says: "The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx...