The metaphor in the last two lines plus also the mention of the sons" age throughout the poem show that the transition and detachment from the narrator's father has happened as the narrator has matured with age. The concept that changing of perspective happens with maturity is also shown in the text Cats in the cradle by Harry Chaplin, where once again we see the falling apart of a father-son relationship, as we did in Fleiks Skrzynecki. Cats in the cradle is a story about a father who sees his son grow up the way he wanted to, like him, only to realise that all the tome he spent at wo...

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Essentially, the fact that Mary's pregnancy is virginal and thus divinely meditated makes her son divine. ... Thus, in the Hebrew Bible there are barren women who through God's grace give birth to sons of their husbands who come to inherit the Abrahamic covenant of land. ... In this speech to his servant, Abraham invokes the importance of the preservation of bloodlines: "you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac'" (Genesis 24:3-4). ... For example, when J...

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However, despite all of man's failures God still loves us enough to send His only son to save us from our sin and give us eternal life with God, all we have to do is believe in him. ... However, not all was lost for mankind, God found Abraham and promised him that he would be the father of God's people, he also promised He would bless Abraham and his descendants. ... These prophecies are fulfilled in the New Testament when God sends his only son, Jesus, to be born as a man and live a blameless life only to be sacrificed for all of mankind so we can all be saved and join God in th...

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For that bitter murder, the killing of Abel, all-ruling Father". ... Jesus Christ was sent by God and he is recognized as the only bigoted son that everyone believes as the intermediary to God so also is Beowulf as well was sent by King Hrothgar to deliver his people and as intermediary to the king. ...

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