Citations:Abraham's bosom

English citations of Abraham's bosom

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 16:22

  And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom

• 1625, James Ussher, The Whole Works

  And therefore poor Lazarus was by the angels lifted up into Abraham's bosom." "Behold" that poor man abounding with all good things; whom the blessed ...

• 1758, Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

  But thy Lord assures thee that the soul of a Lazarus hath a convoy of angels to carry it into Abraham's bosom. Shall a drunkard be so merry among his cups, ...

• 1824, The Christian Examiner and General Review

  The beggar is carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. ... It is here alluded to in the expression, that Lazarus was carried to Abraham's bosom. ...

• 1849, Lancelot Andrewes, Ninety-six Sermons

  Moriatur anima mea, his soul should go straight to Abraham's bosom for all that; and so, in effect, to deny Abraham's consequence. ...

• 1872, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Sermons

  And it came to pass that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted ...

• 2001, André Vauchez, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

  But, despite the ideas of some authors like Tertullian, it would be wrong to make Abraham's bosom a neutral place, without reward or punishment, ...

• 2006, John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

  higher than this, till you are carried into Abraham's bosom." I say yet again, beware of enthusiasm. Such is, the imagining you have the gift of ...