They embraced the doctrines of the Sabbath, the heavenly sanctuary interpretation of, conditional immortality and the expectation of Christ's premillennial return.

This Biblical interpretation is a call to action against poverty, and the sin engendering it, to effect Jesus Christ's mission of justice in this world.

In a circular issued on 17 October 2006, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments recalled the 1974 declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that there is no doubt whatsoever regarding the validity of Masses celebrated using " for all " as a translation of " pro multis ", since " for all " corresponds to a correct interpretation of Christ's intention expressed in the words of the consecration, and since it is a dogma of the Catholic faith that Christ died on the Cross for all.

Through years of intensive study of symbolic meaning of the prophecies of Daniel and using the year-day method of prophetic interpretation, Miller became convinced that the date of Christ's Second Coming was revealed in Bible prophecy.

The Millerites are diverse religious groups which similarly rely upon a special gift of interpretation for fixing the date of Christ's return.

Therefore, Spiritism claims to be a Christian doctrine, claiming it is based on Jesus Christ's teachings, despite of having an interpretation that differs from those held by the Church.

In Christian end-times theology, ( eschatology ), postmillennialism is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ's second coming as occurring after ( Latin post -) the " Millennium ", a Golden Age in which Christian ethics prosper.

The language was modernized to remove archaic pronouns (" thee ", " thou ") and their corresponding verbs (" didst ", " speaketh ") which the RSV had maintained in passages the translators considered to refer to God ( which proponents of historical Christian interpretation also objected to, as archaic verbiage was not retained when addressing Christ, which was interpreted as an implicit denial of Christ's divinity ; also, breaking with tradition, the RSV did not capitalize passages of the Old Testament that have been traditionally interpreted as prophecies of Christ ), to remove obsolete words ( e. g., " jug " for " cruse "), and to introduce a moderate amount of horizontal gender-neutral language.

As a framework for biblical interpretation, covenant theology stands in contrast to dispensationalism in regard to the relationship between the Old Covenant with national Israel and the New Covenant in Christ's blood.

Among Lonergan's more noteworthy contributions to Christology include his theory about the ontological and psychological constitution of Christ, his interpretation of Christ's human knowing, and his interpretation of Christ's redemptive work.

According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus Christ's death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of deicide, or God-killing.

Gnostics also took to a more gnostic interpretation the phrase though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more in 2 Corinthians 5: 16 as indicative of Paul's progress from Hylic, rather than the understanding of Christ's time being in the past.

Some interpreters have suggested a homoerotic interpretation of Christ's relationship with the Beloved Disciple, but the majority of mainstream Biblical scholars find no hard scriptural evidence to this effect.

Medieval allegorical interpretation of this story is that it prefigures Christ's burial, with the stomach of the whale as Christ's tomb.

In the 18th century, Herder comes to the theological conclusion that, while superior force leaves us cold, the warmth of Christ's love dispels it, and Walter Crane's limerick version of 1887 gives a psychological interpretation, " True strength is not bluster ".

Ambiguity of information, in words, pictures, or other media, is the ability to express more than one interpretation.

( In other words, Copenhagenists have always made the assumption of collapse, even in the early days of quantum physics, in the way that adherents of the Many-worlds interpretation have not.

*** The Erya is a dictionary explaining the meaning and interpretation of words in the context of the Confucian Canon.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.

Based on some etymological interpretation of the words strava and medos, and subsequent historical appearance, the latter has been taken to include a form of pre-Slavic language.

* the interpretation of certain words and letters and superfluous words, prefixes, and suffixes in general

* the interpretation of those letters, which, in certain words, are provided with points

* the interpretation of a word by dividing it into two or more words

Presence of apparently superfluous words or letters, chronology of events, parallel narratives or other textual anomalies are often a springboard for interpretation of segments of Biblical text.

The term is applied also to the derivation of new laws, either by means of a correct interpretation of the obvious meaning of scriptural words themselves or by the application of certain hermeneutic rules.

In other words, discussions about interpretation of the theory, and extensions to it, are now mostly conducted on the basis of shared assumptions about the mathematical foundations.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

Nevertheless, occasional commentators have successfully used a process of free interpretation and determined ' twisting ' of their words to predict an apparently imminent event.

It is in this sense that St Paul's words are taken by the Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries like St Hilary of Poitiers, St Ambrose, and St Augustine, and there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of their interpretation.

Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses.

The gifts of prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues, and words of wisdom and knowledge are called the vocal gifts.

" In other words, semantics is about interpretation of an expression.

One kabbalistic interpretation is that the Torah constitutes one long name of God, and that it was broken up into words so that human minds can understand it.

Many Protestants reject a literal interpretation of these words.

In statutory interpretation, it refers to the problem of giving meaning to groups of words where one of the words is ambiguous or inherently unclear.

The interpretation of the two or more words might have a sui generis difference depending on the circumstances.

The leader will often interrupt the reading to discuss different points with his or her children, or to offer a Torah insight into the meaning or interpretation of the words.

In view of these shortcomings in both the amount and the interpretation of survey-type findings on public opinion, and considering the criticisms which can be brought against Fromm's philosophical anthropology, such a passage as the following cannot be taken seriously.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

However, none of Justinian's surviving edicts dealing with Jewish matters is explicitly directed against the Jewish calendar, making the interpretation of Procopius's statement a complex matter.

He argued against the belief in revelation and the holding on to a literal interpretation of the Bible by the predominant orthodox doctrine through a problem later to be called Lessing's Ditch.

Young, Smith, and numerous other early leaders frequently cautioned against the public exercise of glossolalia unless there was someone who could exercise the corresponding spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues, so that listeners could be edified by what had been said.

Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, since this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.

Because of the biblical proscription against false prophets, Christianity has always been occupied with the orthodox interpretation of the faith.

In his writing against the Gnostics, who claimed to possess a secret oral tradition from Jesus himself, Irenaeus maintained that the bishops in different cities are known as far back as the Apostles — and none were Gnostic — and that the bishops provided the only safe guide to the interpretation of Scripture.

Whether the Quran sanctions defensive warfare only or commands an all out war against non-Muslims depends on the interpretation of the relevant passages.

Anthony Munday's play The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington portrays many of John's negative traits, but adopts a positive interpretation of the king's stand against the Roman Catholic Church, in line with the contemporary views of the Tudor monarchs.

Marxist-Leninists believe that without a transitionary period of state control ( their interpretation of the dictatorship of the proletariat ) it would be impossible for any revolution to maintain the momentum or cohesion to defend the new society against external and internal threats.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

Moses Stuart noted that Alcasar's preterist interpretation was of considerable benefit to the Roman Catholic Church during its arguments with Protestants, and preterism has been described in modern eschatological commentary as a Catholic defense against the Protestant Historicist view which identified the Roman Catholic Church as a persecuting apostasy.

James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.

The first century Jewish interpretation found in Flavius Josephus explains the construction of the tower as a hubristic act of defiance against God ordered by the arrogant tyrant Nimrod.

Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist rejected the appellants argument for the common law's protection of property against trespass, writing that such an interpretation would " represent a return to the era of Lochner v. New York,, when common-law rights were also found immune from revision ... would freeze the common law as it has been constructed by courts, perhaps at its 19th-century state of development.

Although there is little doubt that the writers of the Second Amendment were heavily influenced by the English Bill of Rights, it is a matter of interpretation as to whether they were intent on preserving the power to regulate arms to the states over the federal government ( as the English Parliament had reserved for itself against the monarch ) or whether it was intent on creating a new right akin to the right of others written into the Constitution ( as the Supreme Court recently decided ).

A literal interpretation of the passages, in which the command refers specifically to a manual strike against the side of a person's face, can be supported by reference to historical and other factors.

The Nizaris ' symbolic interpretation of the Qur ' anic description of Paradise serves as evidence against the possibility of such an exotic garden used as motivation for the devotees to carry out their armed missions.

Although these latter conclusions were not substantiated by Zoroastrian tradition, at the time Haug's interpretation was gratefully accepted by the Parsis of Bombay since it provided a defense against Christian missionary rhetoric, particularly the attacks on the Zoroastrian idea of an uncreated Evil that was as uncreated as God was.

As a junior commander, he was subject to the orders of his Commander in Chief ( Admiral Jervis ); in taking this action he was acting against the " form line ahead and astern of Victory " order and using his own wide interpretation of " take suitable stations " in the later signal.

Brzezinski ran up against members of his own Democratic Party who disagreed with this interpretation of détente, including Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.