 | Gabe Huck - 1994 - 204 pagini
...from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in...together, and righteousness and bliss have kissed one another!" Of what happened later in the evening nothing definite can here be stated. None of the guests... | |
 | Caroline J. Simon - 1997 - 228 pagini
...from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in particular; grace takes us all to its bosom and proelaims general amnesty. See! that which we have chosen is given us, and that which we have refused... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pagini
...breakthrough or a religious breakdown? The end of Babette's Feast is another, though the tipsy general's toast ("that which we have chosen is given us, and that...refused is, also and at the same time, granted us") (60) is so laced with irony and humor that it has resisted negative commentary. But what does it mean?... | |
 | Robert Jewett - 1999 - 238 pagini
...comes when our eyes are opened, and we see and realize that grace is infinite. . . . Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in...grace takes us all to its bosom and proclaims general amnesty.14 If grace is really so boundless, then the lives of all people sharing the meal are infmitely... | |
 | Leon Kass - 1999 - 276 pagini
...from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in...granted us. Ay, that which we have rejected is poured on us abundantly. For mercy and truth have met together, and righteousness and bliss have kissed one... | |
 | Walter Brueggemann - 172 pagini
...from us but that we shall await it and confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude. Grace, brothers, makes no conditions and singles out none of us in...together, and righteousness and bliss have kissed one another.43 His listeners know that they have been led to a moment of truth: "They had been given one... | |
 | Emily Griesinger, Mark A. Eaton - 2006 - 395 pagini
...the heart wrenching difficulty of choice, the general gently asserts that "grace is infinite. . . . that which we have chosen is given us, and that which...which we have rejected is poured upon us abundantly" (40). His words here echo the earlier scriptural passage used in reference to Babette: "[T]he stone... | |
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... and after having made it again tremble in fear of having chosen wrong. But the moment comes when our eyes are opened, and we see and realize that grace is infinite. Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence... 