Bible Encyclopedia: Being Ugly

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The Ugly Thread in the Weaving.
... Ugly things stand out by reason of their very ugliness ... The questions asked raise
the possibility clearly being discussed of John being the promised prophet, or ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/the ugly thread in the.htm

That it is Especially with the Platonists that we must Carry on ...
... from a living principle, but that, nevertheless, all things, being material, spring ...
which judges whether the representation is beautiful or ugly is without ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 5 that it is especially.htm

Concerning Good, Light, Beauty, Love, Ecstasy, Jealousy, and that ...
... one time beautiful, and at another not; nor in relation to one thing beautiful,
and in relation to another ugly, nor here, and not there, as being beautiful to ...
/.../dionysius/dionysis on divine names/caput iv concerning good light.htm

Yet Love Can Forbear
... eternally. He cannot indeed be reconciled to an ugly object as it is ugly,
but as it is capable of being otherwise He may. He can ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/30 yet love can forbear.htm

Third Tractate. On the Kinds of Being (3).
... the measure of Motion should be assigned to Relation, while Space, being that which ...
attached to something which in a given relation may appear ugly: the beauty ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/plotinus/the six enneads/third tractate on the kinds.htm

The Sixth Ennead Cfirst Tractate. On the Kinds of Being (1).
... If they are classed as qualities in virtue of being powers, power, we have seen ... a
quality; if, however, it is what makes an object beautiful or ugly after the ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/the sixth ennead cfirst tractate.htm

Seventh Tractate. How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came ...
... order, disorder; symmetry, irregularity; health, illness; form, shapelessness;
real-being, decay: in ... Why is the living ugly more attractive than the sculptured ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/seventh tractate how the multiplicity.htm

section ii.
... I cannot tell by what Logick we call a Toad, a Bear, or an Elephant ugly; they being
created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions ...
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[Greek: En Toyto Nika]
... Paul did not say these ugly words for himself. ... apostle of God, then they expected
him to argue with them on cunning points of philosophy; about the being of God ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xxxiv greek en toyto.htm

Implanted Dispositions.
... A being without qualities is unthinkable. ... for he thinks, judges, and decides; in
matters of taste, for he judges things to be beautiful, ugly, or indifferent ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/ix implanted dispositions.htm

Topical Bible Verses

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
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1 Peter 3:3-5
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
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