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According to this theory, the cholera is supernatural. "Nothing will stop it but prayer." So all energy is diminished, all effort against the evil is crushed. Fortunately, though the supernatural theory is taught, it is not generally acted upon. It is good for exciting fear. for hiding from men's eyes the real evils which the cholera points out ...
CHOLER. kol'-er: Lit. "bile," is used in the sense of a disease (cholera) (Sirach 31:20; 37:30), and in the sense of bitter anger (marar) ( Daniel 8:7; 11:11 English Versions of the Bible, the American Standard Revised Version "anger"). These files are public domain. Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor.
Aug 14, 2019 · Keywords: Bible; Cholera; Prevention. Publication types Letter Comment MeSH terms Bible* Cholera* Economics, Medical ...
- Elias E Mazokopakis
- 2019
CHOLER is used in Sir 31:20; Sir 37:30 in the sense of a disease, perhaps cholera, diarrhaOxf. Eng. Dict. (RV [Note: Revised Version.] colic); and in Dan 8:7; Dan 11:11 in the sense of bitter anger. Both meanings are old, and belonged indeed to the Lat. cholera as early as the 3rd and 4th centuries.
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2. Anger; wrath; irritation of the passions. Cholera Morbus, a sudden evacuation of bile, both upwards and downwards. First occurrence in the Bible (KJV): Daniel 8:7. Webster's 1828 Dictionary. Choleric. CHOLERIC, adjective. 1. Abounding with choler. 2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger; as a choleric man. 3.
Undoubtedly, this directive from God protected the Israelites from diseases transmitted through the fecal-oral route by water and food, such as cholera, although they did not know about the existence of microbes and viruses at that time.
(23) The angel of the Lord smote him. —The intervention of the angel is obviously regarded by St. Luke as the only adequate explanation at once of the death of the persecutor and of the escape of his victim, and in the former he recognised not only what has been called the irony of history, or an instance of the law of Nemesis, bringing down the haughty in the very hour of their triumph, but ...
