Chloe
Feminine name, meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek.The name was a popular Ancient Greek girl's name and remains a popular Greek name today.
The word χλόη (khlóē), which was one of the many names of the goddess Demeter, refers to the young, green foliage or shoots of plants in spring.
The name appears in the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 1:11 in the context of "the house of Chloe," a leading early Christian woman in Corinth, Greece.
ΧλόηFeminine name, meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek.The name was a popular Ancient Greek girl's name and remains a popular Greek name today.
The word χλόη (khlóē), which was one of the many names of the goddess Demeter, refers to the young, green foliage or shoots of plants in spring.
The name appears in the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 1:11 in the context of "the house of Chloe," a leading early Christian woman in Corinth, Greece.
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The dragon sickness is a euphemism for the bourgeois materialism which is rife in our consumerist culture. Smaug's fury at the loss of a single insignificant and practically useless trinket serves as a metaphor for modern man and his mania for possessing trash that he doesn't need.
Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce
The Triumph of Death - circa 1562 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
This moral work shows the triumph of death over all earthly things: a huge army of skeletons ravaging the land.
In the background, a devastated landscape still sees episodes of destruction.
In the foreground, Death, leading his armies from a horse, destroys the world of the living, who are guided into a huge coffin, with no hope of salvation. All social strata are present, neither power nor devotion can save them.
This moral work shows the triumph of death over all earthly things: a huge army of skeletons ravaging the land.
In the background, a devastated landscape still sees episodes of destruction.
In the foreground, Death, leading his armies from a horse, destroys the world of the living, who are guided into a huge coffin, with no hope of salvation. All social strata are present, neither power nor devotion can save them.
Any love that does not originate in the Passion of The Savior is a frivolous and dangerous love.
—Saint Francis of Sales
—Saint Francis of Sales
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Still Life with Books and Manuscripts and a Skull - 1663 - Evert Collier Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes: vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. #books
I didn't realize at the moment of posting that this painting links with my obsession with the the fact that we become the books we read.
That is, those who read.
What do they become, those who don't read at all?
That is, those who read.
What do they become, those who don't read at all?
The New Necklace - 1910 - William Paxton MacGregor
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.
With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.
The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.
On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself.
Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.
She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.
A jealous woman is the grief and mourning of the heart.
With a jealous woman is a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.
As a yoke of oxen that is moved to and fro, so also is a wicked woman: he that hath hold of her, is as he that taketh hold of a scorpion.
A drunken woman is a great wrath: and her reproach and shame shall not be hid.
The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.
On a daughter that turneth not away herself, set a strict watch: lest finding an opportunity she abuse herself.
Take heed of the impudence of her eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.
She will open her mouth as a thirsty traveller to the fountain, and will drink of every water near her, and will sit down by every hedge, and open her quiver against every arrow, until she fail.
—Ecclesiasticus 26:8-15