Sentence examples for form of a servant from inspiring English sources

Among the early Church Fathers, the idea of Satan as the antagonist of Christ led to a mythical interpretation of the incarnation and disguise in the "form of a servant".

Paying unheralded personal calls, a routine Wharton describes as tedious in her autobiography, was obligatory in her class, where protection from unwelcome visitors took the form of a servant claiming, often mendaciously, that Madam was not at home.

Paul quotes an ancient hymn in his letter to the Philippians that says Christ "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Early on--still in the research stage--I saw this idea of kenosis, usually translated as Christ 'emptying' himself to take the form of a servant (Phil. 2 7 ..

Why did God, himself, have to come to earth in the form of a servant, a man, not counting himself equal with God, and obeying God to the point of death on a cross (Phil 2 6-8)?

Its salient features include a two-sided stack of a dozen mirrored light boxes whose piercingly bright images of waterfalls move slightly; an equally kitschy lawn figurine in the form of a Chinese servant (instead of a black jockey); and a glittering display of pristine, unlabeled water bottles draped with the engraved-metal welcome signs that adorn bottles of Champagne in hotel rooms.

Christopher, as he was known to his family, not only set out to defend this way of life, but he brought a piece of it with him — in the form of a personal body servant named Spencer.

Inevitably, anyone writing about Trump must also confront racism: in 1875, it's in the form of Clinton's servant, a freed slave named Agamemnon Jehoshaphat Washington Blox, whose characterization teeters uneasily between dialect comedy and actual empathy.

The novel is constructed in the form of a letter from an Indian servant-driver-murderer to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, on the occasion of Wen's announced visit to India.

This takes the form of a journal kept by a young servant-girl working for a kindly doctor in late 19th-century London.

The only semblance of such guidelines was in the form of a declaration of assets which all civil servants complete upon commencement of employment with the government.