Bible Dictionary: Beauty: Rachel

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Genesis 29:17
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
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Rachel's Refuge
... The costume was distinctly Israelitish, elaborated somewhat at the suggestion of
Masanath, to whom Rachel's golden beauty was a never-lessening wonder. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxii rachels refuge.htm

Laban had Two Daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had Tender Eyes ...
... Laban had two daughters, Leah and Rachel; but Leah had tender eyes, while Rachel
is said to have been beautiful. Jacob, captivated by her beauty, burned with ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter ix laban had two.htm

Of the Union of Our Will to the Good-Pleasure of God by ...
... But because, besides his father's will, he desired to satisfy his own liking, charmed
with the beauty and grace of Rachel, he disliked marrying Lia, and took ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iv of the union.htm

The Gods of Egypt
... Rachel had given him no sign of preference beyond a pretty fellowship. ... His heavy
heart did not retard the progress of his statue or make its beauty indifferent ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xv the gods of.htm

Of the Sweetness of the Commandment which God Has Given us of ...
... I would not indeed affirm for certain, that the view of God's beauty which the ... gain
the King's daughter,"and what did not Jacob do to espouse Rachel, and the ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter i of the sweetness.htm

Whether the Moral virtues Pertain to the Contemplative Life?
... xiv in Ezech.) that "the contemplative life gives beauty to the soul," wherefore
it is signified by Rachel, of whom it is said (Gn.29:17) that she was "of a ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the moral virtues pertain.htm

That Perfect virtues are Never one Without the Other.
... But because he loved Rachel by reason of her beauty, he could never equally love
poor Lia, though a fruitful and wise maid, because to his mind she was not so ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter vii that perfect virtues.htm

Chapter six
... Virginia's pale, clear complexion was that of health, but it was generally
in marked contrast with Rachel's tropical type of beauty. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter six.htm

The Testament of Issachar Concerning Simplicity.
... Therefore the Lord hearkened to Rachel because of the mandrakes: for though she
desired ... For he cannot allow within his mind a thought of female beauty, that he ...
/.../v the testament of issachar concerning.htm

Chapter twenty-one
... Felicia was nineteen, with a tropical beauty somewhat like her cousin, Rachel Winslow,
with warm, generous impulses just waking into Christian feeling, capable ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-one.htm

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