It has been noted that the letters FERT are already found on the tombs of members of the House of Savoy long before 1310 and suggested that they represent a local medieval variant of the Latin third person singular past tense meaning " he bore " ( i. e., " Christ bore our sins / sufferings ").

Of other works only fragments and the titles have survived: Messeniakos, advocating the freedom of the Messenians and containing the sentiment that " God has left all men free ; nature has made no man a slave "; a Eulogy of Death, in consideration of the wide extent of human sufferings ; a Techne or instruction-book in the art

For I have been attacked by a painful inability to urinate, and also dysentery, so violent that nothing can be added to the violence of my sufferings.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

Through the centuries, some Christians have practiced these voluntary penances as a way of imitating Jesus who, according to the New Testament, voluntarily accepted the sufferings of his passion and death on the cross at Calvary in order to redeem humankind.

Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: " This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

In traditional thought, the sufferings of the people of Israel, have deeper ethical and mystical causes, and require collective soul searching and return to God.

As to the question concerning the frequent sufferings of the pious and the prosperity of the wicked — truly a burning one in Akiba's time — this is answered by the explanation that the pious are punished in this life for their few sins, in order that in the next they may receive only reward ; while the wicked obtain in this world all the recompense for the little good they have done, and in the next world will receive only punishment for their misdeeds ( Gen. R.

" Almost none ," replied the deceased ; " for I understand that my sufferings will end only when I have a pious son.

Oedipus might have left the plague to take its course ; but pity for the sufferings of his people compelled him to consult Delphi.

" Sometimes one's sufferings have been so great that one need never say, ' I am too happy.

On one hand the introduction of the Nativity scene encouraged the tender image of Jesus, while on the other hand Francis of Assisi himself had a deep attachment to the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross and was said to have recevieved the Stigmata as an expression of that love.

At length, in August 1786, Chalmers, whose sufferings as a Royalist must have strongly recommended him to the government of the day, was appointed chief clerk to the committee of Privy Council on matters relating to trade, a situation which he retained till his death in 1825, a period of nearly forty years.

Subsequent critics have argued that Campbell's position was not self-consistent in the place assigned to the penal and expiatory element in the sufferings of Christ, nor adequate in its recognition of the principle that the obedience of Christ perfectly affirms all righteousness and so satisfies the holiness of God, thus effecting a peace and reconciliation between God and humanity — a true atonement.

With sorrow at the sufferings you have to endure not only from the pagans, but also from Christians ; with gladness at the conversion of the Northmen, who once revelled in human blood, but who now, by your words, rejoice that they are redeemed by the life-giving blood of Christ.

Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria ( 247 – 265 ), relates the sufferings of his people in a letter addressed to Fabius, Bishop of Antioch, of which long extracts have been preserved in Eusebius ' Historia Ecclesiae.

In his letter of 27 May 2007 to the Catholics in the People's Republic of China, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged their faithfulness to Christ and the Church, " sometimes at the price of grave sufferings ", but also expressed concern at some aspects of ecclesial life in the country, in particular the division caused by " the significant part played by entities that have been imposed as the principal determinants of the life of the Catholic community ", so that " persons who are not ordained, and sometimes not even baptized, control and take decisions concerning important ecclesial questions, including the appointment of Bishops, in the name of various State agencies ", with a consequent " demeaning of the Petrine and episcopal ministries ".

In nature, only genes have a utility function – to perpetuate their own existence with indifference to great sufferings inflicted upon the organisms they build, exploit and discard.

After seeing these three sights, Siddhārtha was troubled in his mind and sorrowful about the sufferings that have to be endured in life.

Whatever the cause may have been, the poet was plunged into an abyss of misery and despair to which his diary bears heartrending witness ; his sufferings found poetic expression in the fine cycle of poems bearing the significant title Tristia ex Ponto ( 1835 ).

A premature expression of Lutheran views is said to have caused his departure from Oxford and even his imprisonment, but the records are silent on these sufferings which do not harmonize with his appointment as master of the royal foundation at Eton.

Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, " has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways ," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon ; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her ; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.

One is a social emphasis to impart the values of the kingdom of God in society-to relieve the sufferings of the poor, to stand up for the oppressed, to be a voice for those who have no voice.

A statement said: " we have a Centre, which realises the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, and the leaders there respect our sentiments ," and that they were doing their best to mitigate the sufferings of the Tamils of Lanka.

They were a substitution for the penalty, and were, therefore, strictly and properly vicarious, and were not the identical sufferings which the sinner would himself have endured.

The martyrs ' sufferings strengthened the resolve of their fellow Christians.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

Aëdon now took pity upon the sufferings of her husband, and when her relations were on the point of killing her for this weakness, Zeus changed Polytechnos into a pelican, the brother of Aëdon into a whoop, her father into a sea-eagle, Chelidonis into a swallow, and Aëdon herself into a nightingale.

After that, they created the people, and people had to offer sacrifices to comfort Cipactli for her sufferings.

In African oral chant from Bening, Agassou is depicted as the chosen one sent to Haiti by Ayida Wedo to bring the practice to her African children to ease their pain and sufferings from SLAVERY.

She was ready to try anything to bring relief to her sufferings.

Mary's letters from this time, now at the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity in Boston, Massachusetts, portray her sufferings and search for relief.

When she does finally enter the parlor, Job moves to her, stumbles and falls, and it is apparent that, among the sufferings he has undergone in Germany, Job has been made blind.

One of those songs, Les Souffrances de mon accident ( French " The sufferings of my accident ") was on her accident.

Let every woman whose heart bleeds for the sufferings of her sex, hasten to declare herself and to constitute herself, as far as she possibly can, a free woman.

She was disfigured by a painful skin disease, ( smallpox ), and her sufferings were so acute that she hints at the possibility of madness.

This devotional image shows the saint contemplating God while tenderly holding the pincers, the instruments of her sufferings through which she achieved her sanctity.

This improvement was but temporary, however, and in August 1810 her sufferings grew sharper, whilst in October of that year she was seized with St. Anthony's fire ( erysipelas ), which cut off all hope and confined her to her bed on the 25th.

In the Section on Virtue, and Chapter 32 of the Tirukkuṛaḷ ( c. 200 BC-500 AD ), Tiruvaḷḷuvar says: Why does a man inflict upon other creatures those sufferings, which he has found by experience are sufferings to himself?

In the seventeenth century laudanum was recommended for pain, sleeplessness, and diarrhea by Thomas Sydenham, the renowned " father of English medicine " or " English Hippocrates ," to whom is attributed the quote, " Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Pat Rogers has argued that Chiswick House was a symbolic temple, based on so-called Royal Arch Freemasonry, involving a Hermetic intervention designed to heal the sufferings of the exiled Jews.

( Creeks ) the time has now come when you are to remember the authors of all your sufferings ; those who started a needless and wicked war ....

The sausage-seller makes some serious accusations in the first half of the debate: Cleon is indifferent to the war-time sufferings of ordinary people, he has used the war as an opportunity for corruption and he prolongs the war out of fear that he will be prosecuted when peace returns.

The great Goethe has given us a distinct and visible description of this denial of the will, brought about by great misfortune and by the despair of all deliverance, in his immortal masterpiece Faust, in the story of the sufferings of Gretchen.

It has become one of the most popular devotions for Roman Catholics, and is often performed in a spirit of reparation for the sufferings and insults that Jesus endured during His Passion.

D ' Indy found Pelléas moving, too: " The composer has in fact simply felt and expressed the human feelings and human sufferings in human terms, despite the outward appearance the characters present of living in a dream.

There is no effect of flood in most of the areas that it touches but it has caused widespread sufferings to the people in Terai and northern districts of Bihar.

: He believed that Christ as Mediator was so united to mankind, that his actions were theirs, his obedience and sufferings theirs ; and, consequently, that he has as fully restored the whole human race to the divine favour, as if all had obeyed and suffered in their own persons ; and upon this persuasion he preached a finished salvation, called by the apostle Jude, " The common salvation.

It has successfully collaborated with 21 organizations in Bangladesh up to now to alleviate the sufferings from scared water supply and low sanitation standards in poverty-plagued villages.

It may seem cruel that those whose sufferings are real, whose illness has been brought on by enemy action and very likely in the course of patriotic service, should be treated with such apparent callousness.

Rath Jatra being unique among all Jatras is the grandest festival of the supreme divinity who has manifested himself in the Kali Yuga to emancipate humanity and to relieve them from their sufferings.

Dr. Mohsin: Except those who believe ( in Islâmic Monotheism ) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth ( i. e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds ( Al-Ma ' ruf ) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds ( Al-Munkar ) which Allâh has forbidden ), and recommend one another to patience ( for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allâh's Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic Monotheism or Jihad ).

It is on this doctrinal foundation that the Mahaparinirvana Sutra declares :" the dharmakaya has attributes of eternity ( nitya ), happiness ( sukha ), self ( atman ) and purity ( subha ) and is perpetually free from birth, old age, sickness, death and all other sufferings ...