They view certain verses, which they believe refer only to homosexual rape, as not relevant to consensual homosexual relationships.

Other verses by inference may be considered to refer to ' speaking in tongues ', such as Isaiah 28: 11, Romans 8: 26 and Jude 20.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

Rabbinic Judaism does not believe that the preceding verses refer to what is nowadays described as a homosexual inclination, nor do these verses refer to lesbian sexual activity.

Instead, these verses specifically refer to an act of anal sex between two male Jews.

However, some scholars such as John Brockington, argue that Jaya and Bharata refer to the same text, and ascribe the theory of Jaya with 8, 800 verses to a misreading of a verse in Adiparvan ( 1. 1. 81 ).

Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.

The Qur ' an describes the force of the Muslim attack in many verses, which refer to thousands of angels descending from Heaven at Badr to slaughter the Quraysh.

Byrd's setting of the first four verses of Psalm 78 ( Deus venerunt gentes ) is widely believed to refer to the cruel execution of Fr Edmund Campion in 1581, an event that caused widespread revulsion on the Continent as well as in England.

The Haggadah recommends answering each son according to his question, using one of the three verses in the Torah that refer to this exchange.

It was used in verses such as to refer to things offered to God, and hence off limits to common ( non-religious ) use.

The two verses refer to " Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

The word is usually used to refer to the smallest unit of the Qur ' an, usually called ' verses ' or ' signs ' in English translations of the Qur ' an.

The word ayah is also used to refer to the verses of the Bible by Arab Christians and Christians in countries where Arabic words are used for religious terms.

The latter seems to be a reference to Smyrneis, whereas the sweet verses — apparently the slender, economical kind of verses on which Callimachus modelled his own poetry — appear to refer to Nanno.

Some of these verses, such as Genesis 12: 2 (" I will make of thee a great nation ") and Genesis 25: 23 (" Two nations are in thy womb ") refer to Israelites or descendants of Abraham.

These verses are particularly sad, or they refer to Jews being in exile.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

The Talmud ( in Bava Kamma, 83b-84a ), interprets the verses referring to " an eye for an eye " and similar expressions as mandating monetary compensation in tort cases and argues against the interpretations by Sadducees that the Bible verses refer to physical retaliation in kind, using the argument that such an interpretation would be inapplicable to blind or eyeless offenders.

Here are verses that refer to one ’ s spouse recreated in the hereafter:

Often he would play the piano or spontaneously write short verses for such visitors, confining himself to conventional subjects such as Greece, the Seasons, or The Spirit of the Times, pure in versification but almost empty of affect, although a few of these ( such as the famous ' The Lines of Life ', Die Linien des Lebens, which he wrote out for his carer Zimmer on a piece of wood ) have a piercing beauty and have been set to music by many composers.

In the first book of his satires ( Poeticall ), he attacks the writers whose verses were devoted to licentious subjects, the bombast of Tamburlaine and tragedies built on similar lines, the laments of the ghosts of the Mirror for Magistrates, the metrical eccentricities of Gabriel Harvey and Richard Stanyhurst, the extravagances of the sonneteers, and the sacred poets ( Southwell is aimed at in " Now good St Peter weeps pure Helicon, And both the Mary's make a music moan ").

Shi ' as corroborate the revelation of the Quranic verse 5: 55 with the incident widely narrated in both Sunni and Shia narrations ( ahadith ) where Ali gave his ring in charity to a beggar while bowing in prayer, and cite the verses use of the word إ ِ ن َّ م َ ا to indicate that the subjects are specific, not general.

Where verse by Petrarch had been the standard, and themes of love and longing and death had been typical, by the 1560s composers had begun bringing back elements of some lighter Italian forms, such as the villanella, with their dancelike rhythms and verses on carefree subjects.

In this way the verses describing metaphysical subjects, those explaining the genesis and creation of the heavens and the earth, those concerned with life after death and those about resurrection, paradise and hell were distorted to conform with the said philosophy.

The subjects of these mostly artificial verses are love and satire.

It deals with physical and metaphysical subjects, interpreting in an allegoric-philosophical manner the Bible verses cited by the author.

The subjects of his sand bottles included ornately decorated sentimental verses, sailing ships, portraits — including George Washington, as well as exotic birds, plants and animals.

The Brazilian modinhas, little rhymed poems sung to a guitar at family parties, were very popular at the time, and Bocage added to his fame by writing a number of these, by his skill in extemporizing verses on a given theme, and by allegorical idyllic pieces, the subjects of which are similar to those of Watteau's and Boucher's pictures.

While the subjects of the verses are connected, the narrative of the chorus is detached from the verses as it seemingly reminisces nostalgically.

To solve the problem, Rabbi Aryeh Levin performed the rare goral ha-gra ( ha-gra = Vilna Gaon ) ceremony, a process in which the reader of the Torah is led to certain verses which give hints as to the subjects in question.

In the meantime he had also joined the staff of the Saturday Review, to which he sent, among other writings, weekly verses upon subjects of the hour.

The song features various lyrics about violence and dangerous street fighting except in two verses: Bizarre's, which features various graphic subjects, namely oral sex with his grandmother, and Eminem's, which talks about the youth, how they feel and how they relate with this song and other songs.

For this new departure he apologizes in the introductory verses, where he says that the subjects of epic poetry being all exhausted, it was necessary to strike out a new path.

Daniel Pipes investigated the origin of the phrase " Satanic Verses ", and concluded that despite Salman Rushdie's claim that he had borrowed the phrase from Tabari, the earliest traceable occurrence is in Muir's Life of Mohamet ( 1858 ) in a passage discussing " two Satanic verses ".

The parody of adult songs, like Christmas carols with alternative verses, such as the rewriting of ' While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by night ' to ' While shepherds washed their socks at night ' and numerous variations, was a large element in British playgrounds investigated by the Opies in the twentieth century.

In 1890 the firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of her drawings of her rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

Contemporary critics such as Webbe and Puttenham praised his poetic ability, and his verses were published in several poetry miscellanies.

: A single verse has several meanings, but no two verses hold the same meaning.

The text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas consists of several hundred verses, which have been grouped in 189 numbered paragraphs in the English translation most of which are just a few sentences.

* Tanchuma or Yelammedenu ( ninth century ) on the whole Pentateuch ; its homilies often consist of a Halachic introduction, followed by several poems, exposition of the opening verses, and the Messianic conclusion.

There have been several English translations of the original German verses over the years, but all have maintained the original trochaic tetrameter:

The ambiguities serve to introduce several possible meanings into the verses.

* Armenian poet Kevork Emin has translated several verses of the Rubaiyat.

The lyrics quote from several of the poem's verses, and the tracks ' highly stylized and heavily reverberated production values and pop mysticism have made it a favorite of samplers, beat-diggers, and fans of psychedelic jazz and R & B.

The Sunnah's importance as a source of Sharia, is confirmed by several verses of the Qur ' an ( e. g. ).

However, Memmius ' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.

It has been noted that several songs from the Babes In Toyland's debut album shared lyrics and verses with several songs by Hole, most notably Hole's first several singles, including b-sides from " Retard Girl " and " Dicknail ".

Over several verses, Ovid depicts the inner struggle Myrrha faces between her sexual desire for her father and the social sanctions and shame she would face for sleeping with him.

He met several poets who called themselves his disciples and wanted his advice ; he told them to disregard the contemporary Edo style and even his own Shriveled Chestnuts, saying it contained " many verses that are not worth discussing ".

This can be supported by several verses in the Quran.

The released version of the song is composed of two verses, with an intro, outro, and several refrains.

Though differing in approach, they argue that several verses in the Gospel of John are best understood as responses to a Thomasine community and its beliefs.

The criticism of usury in Islam was well established during the lifetime of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and reinforced by several verses in the Qur ' an dating back to around 600 AD.

Mimnermus was one of several ancient, Greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was in fact a total solar eclipse of his home town, Smyrna, on April 6, 648 BC His poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us a glimpse of his " brilliantly vivid " style.

Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium has transposed and used Hölderlin's verses in several songs.

Orpheus creator and the song's writer Bruce Arnold traded verses with Darius on several occasions, when the band played live on the West Coast.

There are several cosmological verses in the Qur ' an ( 610-632 ) which some modern writers have interpreted as foreshadowing the expansion of the universe and possibly even the Big Bang theory: