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Abraham's bosom

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Abraham’s bosom
reward for the righteous. [N.T.: Luke 16:23]
See : Heaven


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Holyhead's all-weather lifeboat was called out to help a fishing boat which lost power at the Abraham's Bosom cave, near South Stack.
One of his earliest dramas, In Abraham's Bosom, won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, and he went on to write scores of other compositions, among them an adaptation of Richard Wright's novel Native Son for the Broadway stage.
Lazarus the poor man, in Luke's Gospel, did not find himself in Abraham's bosom after death because he was good but because he was poor, and because of that he should have been helped by the rich man, who--because of his inattention--is in torment.
 
 
 
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