In the 3rd and 4th centuries St. Anthony and other anchorites, or hermits, who escaped sin and temptation by flight from the world mostly in the deserts of Syria, Egypt, and Palestine greatly stimulated the growth of the movement.
The fact that individual believers could escape from sin did not free the entire world.
While "buried with" and being "baptized into" are the most graphic terms describing the individual's escape from sin, the most common word for this conversion is "faith"—that is, faith in Christ.
I've decided that faith is what some facts are made of and that the true meaning of Easter isn't just the escape from sin and death but, in part, the escape from thought itself, one of humanity's direst oppressors and, perhaps, the hardest to shake off.
China, Block reckons, cannot escape "the sins of the past".
They long to be independent, to get away from the place where everyone knows their business, to escape "the sins of the Midwest, the flatness, the emptiness, the necessary acceptance of the familiar".
While no New World colony began with a blueprint for becoming a slave society, the entire Western Hemisphere had become implicated by the paradox of trying to reconcile racial slavery with aspirations to escape the sins of the Old World.
I had earlier asked, "Would you like to go with me to the A&P?" Then, after we had finished shopping there, she asked "When do we go to the P?" Arleen Natelson POPCORN PARK ZOO A neo Noah's Ark Is Jersey's Popcorn Park Where needy creatures can Escape the sins of man.
Frustration was clearly evident for the Vikings skipper, former Warrington man Jon Clarke, who dumped Blythe to the ground and was lucky to escape a sin-binning.
If we want to escape the sins of our past, we must ensure there are no second class families today.
