It is concerned only with exalted persons, royal or noble.
If we will be so differently constituted in Heaven as to be strangers to sin, then no meaningful connection will exist between the person who suffers here and the exalted soul who will enjoy the great system of rewards and promises and tears wiped from faces: our faces there will not be the faces we have here.
In ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish thinking, a person exalted to the heavenly realm was divinized - himself made divine.
They are interpretations about divine truth and divine commands, or stories that illustrate how persons, exalted or lowly, have acted (with or without awareness) in response to a divine stimulus.
The ascetics are described as those "who know the shortcomings [of the world], who crave for the hereafter and are convinced of it, firmly rooted in its science, that is the sincere Friends of God, [His] faithful servants, the cream of all [His] creatures, whom the Creator – may [He] be exalted – called 'persons of understanding, persons of view, persons of mind'" (I, 357, 5 9).
The self-righteous person will feel exalted for being persecuted for their misplaced convictions.
And the song's subject — the intimate, exalted feeling of entering a party on the right person's arm — is exactly the right kind of topic, neither too big nor too small, to tackle in a three-minute pop song.
And the song's subject the intimate, exalted feeling of entering a party on the right person's arm is exactly the right kind of topic, neither too big nor too small, to tackle in a three-minute pop song.
He's back at Al Jazeera in an exalted position, albeit older, perhaps wiser, and a changed person, with memories of his six years and seven months of detention in Guantanamo on charges of being a member of al Qaida, which were later overturned.
Another factor, too, is the exalted position of priests, acting "in persona Christi" — in the person of Christ.
It doesn't convey an exalted ego, nor does it insinuate that you are a lesser person than the other (as would be the case if your chin was dropped and held very close to your chest, causing you to look up at the other person).
