Gnostic interpreters … found their notion that the final set of divinities within this thirty-fold Pleroma comprised a duodecad in Luke's reference to Jesus as a twelve-year-old in the temple; and they saw evidence of their doctrine that the twelfth aeon of the duodecad, Sophia, had fallen from the divine realm …

I dare say will think it a lively representation of a person lying under the torments of such a kind of Tantalism , or Platonic Hell , as that which we have now under consideration .

The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.

[T]he idea of an isolated, specialized treatment facility like the leprosarium for plague victims caught on. These buildings would be known as pest houses, lazar houses, or lazaretti (Italian, singular lazaretto; variously spelled in different languages), named, as were many leprosaria, for Lazarus, the poor man with sores in the Gospel parable whom the rich man ignored at the peril of his soul (e.g., Luke 16:19–31).