Word: repenting
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Last week Archbishop Schrembs decreed that his interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...
...contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
...nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety. In the original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
...like burlesque and Annabella, relax for three hours at the University; if you dislike to see Shakspere used to confound the unenlightened, and to watch English producers get horribly involved in their machinations to make a mystery picture mysterious, fidget and repent that you did not go elsewhere...
Make us to know the awful judgment of God which rests upon those having any personal part in lynching, and upon every community and State, and upon our people as a whole until we shall repent and turn away from this taking of human life...