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Augustine
The blood of Abel speaks
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
Augustine
On Augustine's allegorical reading of Cain and Abel
symbolism
Introduction I was asked by a friend a little while ago about what palm trees symbolise in Scripture. This kind of question is very difficult to answer. The Scriptures do not tend to use symbols as mere “synonyms” for other things or concepts. The meaning of a symbol in any
Augustine
Adam's deep-sleep and the building of the Bride For the Theology of the Sexes course, Alastair Roberts assigned us to read some chapters from James Jordan’s Trees and Thorns together with the first chapters of Genesis. (It so happened that I’d just read Trees & Thorns