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Omniscience Ea shrewd god; knew everything in advance. [Babylonian Myth.: Gilgamesh] knows all: past, present, and future. [Christianity and Judaism: NCE, 1098–1099] he knows who has been bad or good. [Western Folklore: Misc.] ancient Egyptian symbol of all-knowingness. [Heraldry: Halberts, 38] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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His equivocations with himself about the death of Raffles had sustained the conception of an Omniscience whom he prayed to, yet he had a terror upon him which would not let him expose them to judgment by a full confession to his wife: the acts which he had washed and diluted with inward argument and motive, and for which it seemed comparatively easy to win invisible pardon--what name would she call them by? All that is now obscure shall become plain to our expanded faculties; and what to our present senses may seem irreconcilable to our limited notions of mercy, of justice, and of love, shall stand irradiated by the light of truth, confessedly the suggestions of Omniscience, and the acts of an All-powerful Benevolence. He only learned that the more he himself knew, in his little limited human way, the better he could distantly imagine what Omniscience might know. |
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