1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.20 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hendiadys Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 263 | 9.20. "And Noah, the man of the land, began and planted a vineyard.", |
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2. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 6.12 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hendiadys Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 263| 6.12. "וְהִזִּיר לַיהוָה אֶת־יְמֵי נִזְרוֹ וְהֵבִיא כֶּבֶשׂ בֶּן־שְׁנָתוֹ לְאָשָׁם וְהַיָּמִים הָרִאשֹׁנִים יִפְּלוּ כִּי טָמֵא נִזְרוֹ׃", | 6.12. "And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his Naziriteship, and shall bring a he-lamb of the first year for a guilt-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his consecration was defiled. .", |
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3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Migration of Abraham, 133 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hendiadys Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 263 | 133. If, therefore, while you are walking you are neither fatigued, so as to give way and stumble, nor are so careless as to turn to either the right hand or to the left hand, and so to stray and miss the direct road which lies between the two; but if, imitating good runners, you finish the course of life without stumbling or error, you will deservedly obtain the crown and worthy prize of victory when you have arrived at your desired end. |
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4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Posterity of Cain, 22 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hendiadys Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 263 | 22. It is worth while also to consider the wickedness into which a man who flies from the face of God is driven, since it is called a tempest. The law-giver showing, by this expression, that he who gives way to inconsiderate impulses without any stability or firmness exposes himself to surf and violent tossing, like those of the sea, when it is agitated in the winter season by contrary winds, and has never even a single glimpse of calm or tranquillity. But as when a ship having been tossed in the sea is agitated, it is then no longer fit to take a voyage or to anchor in harbour, but being tossed about hither and thither it leans first to one side and then to the other, and struggles in vain against the waves; so the wicked man, yielding to a perverse and insane disposition, and being unable to regulate his voyage through life without disaster, is constantly tossed about in perpetual expectation of an overturning of his life. |
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5. Philo of Alexandria, That God Is Unchangeable, 75 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •figures of speech, hendiadys Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2013) 263 | 75. For if God were to choose to judge the race of mankind without mercy, he would pass on them a sentence of condemnation; since there has never been a single man who, by his own unassisted power, has run the whole course of his life, from the beginning to the end, without stumbling; but since some men have fallen into voluntary, and some into involuntary sins, |
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